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RELOCATIONS Herb Rothschild: Stick to the facts
Posted Apr. 4, 2015 at 12:01 AM
The great physicist Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) thought that the age of the earth was between 20 million and 40 million years. Evolutionists like Thomas Huxley resisted this estimate because the…
Herb Rothschild Jr: Failing at charity
Posted Mar. 28, 2015 at 12:01 AM
One day I was leaving the Shop ’n’ Kart parking lot and a young man — perhaps 25 — was standing near the street holding a hand-lettered cardboard sign that said, “FAILING AT LIFE.” I gave him $5 and drove…
Workers need more power
Posted Feb. 14, 2015 @ 12:01 am
Stephen Klineberg, a sociologist at Rice who conducted the annual Houston Area Survey, was in demand as a public speaker. A point he often made was that well-paying unskilled and semi-skilled jobs in…
Herb Rothschild Jr: Thoughts on the drug war
Posted Jan. 31, 2015 @ 2:00 am
Updated Feb 2, 2015 at 9:31 AM
Despite historically high graduation rates from our public schools — 81 percent in 2011-2012, the latest for which comprehensive data are available — we often hear elected…
Herb Rothschild Jr.: King’s provocation
Posted Jan. 17, 2015 at 2:00 AM
Updated Feb 12, 2015 at 6:20 PM
The South in which I grew up prided itself on its courtesy. The “Howdy” and “Y’all come back and see us” did make daily interactions more gentle than, say, in New Jersey.…
Guest Opinion: SOU biomass burner would be big mistake
By Bob Palzer and Paul Fouch
Posted Jan. 14, 2015 @ 12:01 am
We are shocked that Southern Oregon University is proposing to replace its natural gas boilers with a highly polluting biomass cogeneration operation.
Decades of effort by…
Civil rights leader to speak at MLK celebration
By Angela Decker
For the Tidings
Posted Jan. 13, 2015 at 8:20 PM
Updated Jan 14, 2015 at 10:32 AM
In 1960s Alabama, teenager Geneva Craig was jailed, beaten, tear-gassed and threatened, yet she was determined to fight for social…
Ashland ex-swim coach gets 40 months after reconnecting with victim
By Ryan Pfeil
Mail Tribune
Posted Dec. 29, 2014 @ 2:57 pm
Updated Dec 30, 2014 at 12:27 AM
A former Ashland High School volunteer swim coach convicted last year of having a sexual relationship with an underage team member is headed to…
Employment in Oregon surpasses pre-recession levels
Posted Dec. 16, 2014 @ 12:58 pm
Updated Dec 16, 2014 at 12:59 PM
Preliminary figures from the state Employment Department say employment in Oregon has reached an all-time high, finally climbing above a peak reached in 2007 before the…
Going back to the beginning of ‘Inner Peace’
By Sally McKirgan
Posted Dec. 12, 2014 at 6:15 PM
The article below was published as a Guest Commentary in the Tidings on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2008. It was the beginning idea that became the Inner Peace column that in January…