Guest Opinion

Guest Opinions

• Medical marijuana limits are appropriate now - 2/7/2010

  P""olice Chief Schoen is a doctor now? Apparently he is not alone.

• Legislature should protect children from bisphenol-A - 2/2/2010

  and Laurie Monnes-Anderson

• Old growth and the BLM: time for a pledge? - 1/31/2010

  and Jerry Franklin

• Why mail matters to county jail inmates - 1/24/2010

  My son recently was incarcerated in the Jackson County Jail.

• Ashland forest plan ignores collaboration - 1/22/2010

  The Mail Tribune criticized Eric Navickas for standing alone against the community when we filed a lawsuit challenging the Ashland Forest Resiliency Project.

• 'Think locally' about Haiti relief — and give cash - 1/19/2010

  The words are so common these days that they sound almost trite: "Think globally, act locally."

• Mythbusters: Measures 66 and 67 - 1/18/2010

  Oregon is in a crisis. How we deal with that crisis is now in the hands of the voters.

• Measures will help our community - 1/17/2010

  Social workers have a long history of using their skills to advocate for others and improve their communities.

• There will be cuts, but the world will not end - 1/17/2010

  What do The Oregonian, the Mail Tribune, Salem's Statesman Journal, The Bulletin (Bend), the Daily Courier and I, a fiscally conservative Republican legislator, all have in common? We all recommend a...

• It's time to stop digging and vote yes - 1/10/2010

  The first rule of problem solving is that when you discover you are in a hole, stop digging. The state of Oregon is currently in a fiscal hole.

• Know the facts about spending, reserves - 1/10/2010

  Oregonians will soon vote on two tax increases which will affect our state's future.

• Charter schools are public schools of choice - 1/3/2010

  and Daniele Anderson

• Medford district should charge rent to Madrone Trail - 12/27/2009

  In its Dec. 18 editorial, the Mail Tribune makes an argument in favor of Medford School District 549C granting free use of the West Side School to the Madrone Trail Charter School (Madrone).

• Decision to leave counties' group goes beyond a single bill - 12/22/2009

  Your recent article about Jackson County leaving the Association of Oregon Counties (AOC) implied that the decision was made in retaliation for the AOC's stance on a specific bill that was being...

• Mobile home park tenants know of housing debacles - 12/20/2009

  For the past year, we've heard much about how homeowners are hard pressed to stay in their homes, and how many first-time buyers were duped by teaser loans and fraud by subprime lenders like...

• The great outdoors can help heal a generation - 12/20/2009

  Iwatched with a grin as my 10-year-old son, Steen, gallivanted around the mouth of Strawberry Creek, both he and the stream running free through the meadow.

• Christmas trees, Muslim symbols don't belong in public schools - 12/16/2009

  The decision to reinstate the Christmas tree in Ashland's Bellview Elementary School was in my view unfortunate.

• School district mishandled tree meeting - 12/13/2009

  I know this may sound strange, but the so-called "tree meeting" was a big loss for Bellview parents.

• We need a more sensible forest fire policy - 12/13/2009

  By this time of the year, the annual Southern Oregon wildfire season is long forgotten.

• Measures 66, 67: coming together for Oregon - 11/29/2009

  It's not hard to see how the economic recession has affected our families and our communities.

• Buying locally boosts the economy - 11/22/2009

  These days it can feel like economic security is out of our hands. Wall Street, Congress, the stock market and the housing market all seem to hold our destiny.

• Tort reform and 'corporate' America - 11/22/2009

  The article in the Mail Tribune Friday, Nov. 13, about Susan Saladoff's film documentation of "corporate America's manipulation of the U.S.

• Expansion threatens ski area's existence - 11/15/2009

  The Mount Ashland ski area is a wonderful resource for the valley and the greater Southern Oregon-Northern California area.

• Expansion is vital to future survival - 11/15/2009

  In 1998 the Mount Ashland Association started the Federal National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process required to bring about much-needed improvements to Mount Ashland.

• Tax measures beat alternative - 11/8/2009

  Since 1931, Oregon's corporate minimum income tax has been just $10. Since 1931, corporate lobbyists have done a fine job of protecting this embarrassingly low tax. As State Sen.

• Hyatt Lake decision was the correct one - 11/8/2009

  We wish to point out several inaccuracies in the Oct.

• Democrats want to force taxes on Oregonians - 11/1/2009

  The old axiom that power tends to corrupt, but absolute power corrupts absolutely, is alive and thriving in Salem.

• Local clinics help keep costs down - 11/1/2009

  The opinion piece by Dr. Amina Merchant in the Oct.

• Initiative will improve medical marijuana law - 11/1/2009

  Your Oct. 16 editorial, "Medical marijuana law needs attention," correctly identifies that we need to fine-tune Oregon's medical marijuana law.

• Schools have reasons for declining Mandarin grants - 10/25/2009

  Well-meaning parents, politicians and pundits criticize public school policies without properly understanding them.