Herb Rothschild Jr.: New developments
Most of the subjects of my column are ongoing concerns. They don’t go away just because I’ve had my say. So periodically I like to report relevant developments.Saudi Arabia: In my May 27 column I...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Different yardsticks
Last July I told you that I knew David Duke personally. He enrolled at LSU in fall 1968, three years after I joined the faculty and two years after I founded the local ACLU chapter. Several times he...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Tools of change
During this year’s commemoration of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one event focused on civil disobedience as a tool of social change. The program planners scheduled it because we had as a...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: A second movement
We’re now in the midst of a second civil rights movement. Just as the abolition movement ended slavery but not inequality for African Americans, so the first civil rights movement ended legal...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: The Gülen extradition
Although he’s been living in the U.S. since 1997, Muhammed Fethullah Gülen isn’t a household name here. He may soon become one. In the wake of the failed coup attempt in Turkey last month, President...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Labor Day thoughts
Oregon was the first state to declare Labor Day an official holiday. That was in 1887, one year after thousands of U.S. workers went on strike and rallied for the eight-hour day. At the rally in...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Time to end the war
Early last year I published a column about the war on drugs. In its original version I asserted that the seemingly failed war hasn’t ended because the real motives behind it were to furnish pretexts...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Measure 97 explained
Measure 97 is the most significant measure on our upcoming state ballot. If passed, it will raise funds dedicated to education, health care and senior services by increasing the minimum tax on...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Corporate taxes
This is the second of three columns on Measure 97 which, if passed, will raise funds intended for education, health care and senior services by increasing the minimum tax on corporations with $25...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Measure 97, Part 3
This is the last of three columns on Measure 97, which proposes to raise funds for education, health care and senior services by increasing the minimum tax on a corporation’s annual sales of $25...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Revolution? Not really
The faculty member who taught Russian history during most of my years at LSU told me that when he first developed his course on revolutions, he wasn’t sure if he should include National Socialism. But...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Pondering term limits
Like most of you, I was saddened by the near coincidence of Peter Buckley’s retirement from the Oregon House and Sen. Alan Bates’ sudden death. But when I heard Pam Marsh and Tonia Moro, the Democratic...
View ArticleAging Happens: Four tips to help select your successor trustee
It’s great when people have made arrangements for their estate planning by setting up a will or a trust. Most people understand the importance of having these legal documents in place and reviewed with...
View ArticleAging Happens: Say what? Hearing loss could lead to behavior change?
Most people would say that other than being a nuisance, hearing loss is not that big of a deal. Read this data from the American Academy of Audiology (www.audiology.org) and see if it changes your...
View ArticleEnd of life issues not easily solved
You might have recently read about a very difficult situation affecting a person with dementia. She had made her wishes known that she did not want to be fed when the dementia progressed. When the time...
View ArticleAs It Was: 'Grace's Visit to the Rogue River Valley' was a hit in 1915
In February 1915, the Medford Commercial Club learned from visitors to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that the Jackson County exhibit was rather bland compared to exhibits...
View ArticleAs It Was: WCTU 'Broom Brigade' battled 'demon alcohol'
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union led the battle against “demon alcohol” from the 1880s into the 20th Century. The WCTU even used occasions such as Ashland’s summer Chautauqua to bring its message...
View ArticleAs It Was: Tales say Jacksonville ghost screams on windy nights
When the wind blew from the southwest and the clouds scudded across a new moon, she screamed!“She” was the ghost of a woman haunting the front bedroom on the south end of the B.F. Dowell house in...
View ArticleMary Ann Harris repels an Indian attack
As in all wars, many innocent people suffered the violence of the Rogue Indian Wars in Southern Oregon between 1852 and 1856. Mary Ann Harris and her daughter found themselves in the midst of a raid in...
View ArticleAs It Was: Cemetery visit focuses on Ann Hasseltine Russell
A quiet stroll through any of the old cemeteries in Ashland can reveal many stories, one of them about the woman behind many of the beautifully carved monuments.In 1865, Maj. James Russell opened a...
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