Daily Tidings Editorial Board

By Joe Zavala Posted Aug. 15, 2014 @ 10:16 am The Southern Oregon University men’s cross country team is the favorite to claim what would be its seventh consecutive Cascade Collegiate Conference title according to the league’s preseason…

By Damian Mann Posted Jul. 8, 2014 at 2:00 AM The Rogue Valley Transportation District will ask voters to approve a temporary, 73 percent increase in property taxes to avoid cutting evening hours and Saturday service. "I hope it…

By Teresa Ristow Posted May. 22, 2014 at 2:00 AM Updated May 22, 2014 at 2:22 PM Like most students preparing to graduate in a few weeks from Southern Oregon University, Madeline Goodwin is excited to put on her cap and gown and…

By Ryan Pfeil Posted Apr. 7, 2014 @ 12:01 am Political action committees facing off over a ballot measure to ban genetically modified crops in Jackson County have raised more than $900,000, with the bulk of that money trying to defeat…

"Green Light Trilogy" is a highly entertaining, lighthearted and apolitical exploration of some of the realities gays face in today's rapidly changing world. The trio of short plays, written by former Ashlanders L.N. Saleh and Tom Lipski…

Ashland Contemporary Theatre's current production of Tom Dudzik's comedy "Greetings," now playing at the Ashland Community Center, features Levi Anderson as Andy Gorsky, a young man who brings his fiancée home to meet his family only to…

Playwright Tom Dudzick's funny and serious 1990 play "Greetings" shows us what can happen when a working-class, religious family finds itself at odds with ideas that are independent of tradition. When Andy Gorski brings his freethinking…

By Angela Decker For the Tidings Posted: 2:00 AM November 22, 2013 Nearly 40 years before baseball great Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, boxer Jack Johnson became the first black man to hold the world…

By Amelia Covert Zeve For the Tidings Posted: 2:00 AM September 28, 2013 A disturbing piece of Southern Oregon history continues to haunt Tunnel 13, a railroad tunnel near the Mount Ashland exit off Interstate 5. Though it's private…

Baylin Stich could have let his 14-year-old brain turn to mush this summer. Instead, the Ashland High School sophomore is staying sharp by playing cards and board games. "Unlike video games or watching TV, these games keep me mentally…