Downtown Dan News Today

Dan Doty, known as “Downtown Dan,” experienced homelessness in the Rogue Valley for 32 years. But for a little more than a year, he’s been living in permanent federal housing in South Medford. Ahead of his 65th birthday in June, Doty says overcoming homelessness requires one to ask for help.

The 70th annual Pear Blossom Festival kicked off on Friday, beginning with a street fair and live music in downtown Medford.

MEDFORD, Ore. -- After nearly 25 years of homelessness, two and a half years in an Urban Campground, and working with Rogue Retreat for about four years, Dan Doty Downtown

by  Charlie LeDuff Dan Gilbert and a rendering of Hudsons project. If you believed the local forecasters who make their bread parroting what the downtown business interests tell them, youre now standing with your pants around your ankles staring up at a flight of stairs to nowhere. Take Dan Gilberts Rocket Companies stock (RKT) that had its initial public offering last August on the New York Stock Exchange. Those forecasters assured us that Gilberts cashing-in...

by  Charlie LeDuff Dan Gilbert and a rendering of Hudsons project. If you believed the local forecasters who make their bread parroting what the downtown business interests tell them, youre now standing with your pants around your ankles staring up at a flight of stairs to nowhere. Take Dan Gilberts Rocket Companies stock (RKT) that had its initial public offering last August on the New York Stock Exchange. Those forecasters assured us that Gilberts cashing-in ...