YIMBY, NIMBY – both address the concept of yes or no in my backyard. Yet, what happens when each change, when each development, goes beyond your or my backyard? The whole balance of a community, our environment, our earth is involved. When community members voice... Continue
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A constant topic hereabouts is Affordable Housing. Specifically: When will we ever get affordable housing? Congress recently passed the “21st Century Road To Housing Act,” but no one should give up their spot under the Ig Vella Bridge just yet. For starters, “affordable housing” is... Continue
Depot Hotel News The rumors appear to be true that Sonoma’s Isetta family is working on purchasing the Depot Hotel. While anonymous sources texted those and other rumors, this one seems to be progressing. While the black and white For Sale sign still stands in... Continue
The Sun now shines on its own. This month, the Sonoma Valley Sun became a fully independent nonprofit, a newspaper that belongs to the community it serves. For the past two years, we've operated under the generous umbrella of a nonprofit fiscal sponsor. Now, with... Continue
The laws of nature govern the universe, and we have struggled to discern and understand them. For a while, we relied upon myth and tales of the supernatural to do so, and they remain popular. When the scientific age arrived, reliance upon experiment and prediction... Continue
Hilary Campbell is a New Yorker Magazine cartoonist, humorist and author who just happens to have been born and raised right here in Sonoma. Continue
As a result of a unilateral action by David Bell, President of the Sonoma Valley School Board, in removing the Pride Flag from the Sonoma Valley Unified School campus in February 2026, a team of people, including parents and students, formed a Pride Flag and... Continue
In his 1907 book Creative Evolution, philosopher-scientist Henri Bergson describes an impulse of becoming, a universal force that underlies the existence of matter and animates life. When applied to living systems, this force propels life forward, providing elements of purpose without delineating purpose itself. The... Continue
One of my last columns got a lot more response than usual. I suppose everyone related to the topic of lost socks in the dryer. I had hoped that the topic was bigger than just that – about how we avoid and hide from talking... Continue
Because few have time to ponder the imponderables one encounters daily, your correspondent ponders in the public’s interest. Recently pondered was the increasingly pervasive use of “bad words” in broadcast and print media, and why they are considered “bad.” Back in the day, saying “poop”... Continue