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Vacation rentals impact good faith neighbors

(This letter is in response to Supervisor Susan Gorin's recent column) Dear Supervisor Gorin, I appreciate your stance but one severe negative impact that seems to be lumped in with the impact on a community or neighborhood as a whole is the plight of the... Continue

Decoding the news propaganda machine

The rise of the Fox News/conservative radio network has challenged the traditional assumptions about the standards for political discourse and the very concept of facts as a basis for political decision-making. The most astute observers of this phenomenon have been comedians like Jon Stewart on... Continue

Grassroots effort to save Broadway trees

In response to the City of Sonoma's discussion about removing 17 mature trees along upper Broadway, a group has formed and is collecting petition signatures online to save the Red Oaks and have sidewalk repairs paid for by the city. At the April 20 City... Continue

Good intentions + poor execution = no new affordable housing

When Governor Brown and the California legislature eliminated redevelopment agencies across the state in 2012, it was the result of two coinciding factors: California was in the midst of a severe budget deficit and redevelopment money was being used inappropriately to line the pockets of... Continue

Free workshop: smart water use in the garden

The Sonoma Ecology Center brings conservation experts together on Saturday, June 13, for the free workshop “Managing Water When Water is Scarce,” 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Sonoma Garden Park. Experts in water management will show how to plant for conservation, and ways to... Continue

The Mindfulness Mess

By the time things get "trendy" they've become clichéd, and as we all know the hallmark of a cliché is its loss of authenticity and meaning. Having become a mere trope of its former self, a craze quickly wears itself out and fades away, destined... Continue

Vacation rentals: The long and the short of it

In 2011, “Time” declared the sharing economy as one of the “10 Ideas that will change the world,” and titled their article, “Don’t Own. Share.” The sharing economy would engender a sense of community, create “meaningful human connections” and even produce a biological “spike” of... Continue

Supes must find way to fix roads

Dear Editor, The County Supervisors would be very much mistaken if they were to read the major defeat of Measure A as a sign voters don’t think fixing the roads is a priority. I spent many weeks earlier in the year talking with Sonoma Valley... Continue
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