Daily Tidings Editorial Board

The 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama announced Monday went to “Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok, a play that headlined the Ashland New Plays Festival (ANPF) in 2016. The playwright, a New Yorker, came to Ashland for two dramatic readings of…

By Laurie Heuston Revels Posted Apr 9, 2018 at 7:43 AM Ashland Independent Film Festival’s director Richard Herskowitz believes that filmmakers’ exposure to classic films inspires them to question and reinvent filmmaking conventions, he…

By Tran Nguyen Ashland Daily Tidings A photograph taken in the 1930s shows a cafe on East Main Street in downtown Ashland with a sign reading, “All White Help.” A Southern Oregon University professor said she was discriminated…

For the Daily Tidings By Caitlin Fowlkes The amount of lawn signs around town makes it clear that Ashland is filled with activists. It takes a lot of courage to be an activist, but for Peace Corps volunteers, it takes more than just…

By John Darling For the Tidings You might think it’s the norm for architects and builders to compete and keep to themselves but now, in Ashland’s Railroad District, we’re seeing them collaborate in the “Splinter Group,” so they can chat…

By Tran Nguyen Ashland Daily Tidings Customers of Ashland Fiber Network and its retail internet providers are getting an update that will double the currently-offered bandwidth with no extra fees by March 15, according to the city’s…

By Tony Boom For the Tidings Ashland author John Riha has written and published “The Bounty Huntress,” a historical novel that takes the real-life slaying of Jackson County’s first game warden as a starting point. A December 2014 Mail…

As we prepare to spring forward on Sunday, March 11, now is a valuable time to check your smoke alarms and ensure they are installed and working properly. Some tips on installation: Choose smoke alarms that have the label of a recognized…

Ashland High School officials sent out a campuswide statement condemning a social-media post they said contained hate speech after it was widely shared among students on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The controversial post appeared Monday…

By Tammy Asnicar for Revels "We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. There is an…