Bryan Holley Speaks Out Again: Response to Councilor Jensen’s Articles
Citizens in Ashland who are watching how well our elected officials are doing in representing their voting constituents should read an essay by councilor Stephen Jensen in the November 2019 issue of the ‘Sneak Preview’... Read More
Ashland in the Crosshairs of the Proposed County Jail
Ashland in the Crosshairs of the Proposed County Jail Here is the scoop. Bottom line: The county jail can’t be built without Ashland City Council putting the jail on the ballot. The property tax base... Read More
Exclusive Opinion: The Real Reason for Piping the Ashland Canal
Piping the Ashland Canal – A Reason You’ve Never Heard Of by Craig Anderson In order to gain a relatively quick appreciation for the City of Ashland’s inimitable form of governance, there is no better... Read More
National Alliance on Mental Illness or NAMI takes a stand on the proposed new jail.
My name is Caren Caldwell. I live in Ashland. I am a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, aka NAMI. (A statement to the Ashland City Council on November 5, 2019.) Our organization... Read More
Discrepancies in the City’s Narrative for Piping the Ashland Canal
Discrepancies in the Narrative for piping the Canal The main reasons given for piping a 2-mile section of an otherwise 20-mile open canal are evaporation and E-coli. The evaporation rate originally provided by the Department... Read More
Ashland Leader Speaks Out about the New Proposed County Jail
Follow the Money I recently looked at the Jackson County Jail list of inmates to help me understand the request of Sheriff Sickler to triple the Jackson County Jail into an 800 bed facility to... Read More