In 2013, City of Sonoma voters narrowly rejected Measure B, a ballot initiative that would have limited the size of new hotels built in town to no larger than 25 rooms until the annual occupancy rate of existing hotels reached 80%. The Measure sought to... Continue
Snark Infested Waters
Quick: In 45k words or less, describe what the world was like for you and loved ones just five short years ago, at year-end 2017. You remember who our President was back then. Right – that guy; he'd been in office almost a whole YEAR.... Continue
Elections are over and newly elected Sonoma City Council members will soon be taking their seats on the dais. Current Councilmembers Sandra Lowe and Mayor Jack Ding will surely appreciate fresh help in addressing the City's many challenges, opportunities and "Who put this crap on... Continue
With October upon us it's nearly November and time to elect another batch of fellow residents to City Council to replace those who are quitting for better-paying vineyard jobs, who promised only to serve one term, whose several terms expired and they're exhausted, and/or whose... Continue
Amid the hair-on-fire frenzy that climate change is dooming the planet are a number of Good News Clues overlooked or ignored by celebrity influencers that strongly suggest the climate will take care of itself, thank-you-very-much. Those distracted by the start of football season may have... Continue
Since the Events of January 6, 2021, the cri de cœur for Democrats and various other leftists/liberals/socialists/communists has been to "hold those responsible Accountable!" But free-speech America is awash in conflict, and many see no good reason to get excited about a few tourists in... Continue
Even if the Supreme Court does not nullify the 13th Amendment next year to again legalize slavery and involuntary servitude, Americans will still be able to volunteer to work for nothing. Which is essentially what candidates for a seat on Sonoma City Council agree to... Continue
Banned for two years because of The Plague, our local celebration of the Greatest Nation On Earth (if you don't count Canada) will see the return of Sonoma's traditional Olde Time 4th of July Home-Town Parade and Fireworks Show. Yes, despite another variant threatening to... Continue
As many predicted, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court has become a dangerous embarrassment, reveling in a medieval Christo-fascist worldview that once burned ‘heretics’ like Joan of Arc at the stake, routinely drowned women as witches and filled the death camps at Auschwitz and... Continue
We are constantly reminded that Planetary Doom is inevitable if we don't get our greenhouse-gassing/carbon-emitting/arctic-melting/deforestating/overfishing/over-eating/under-exercising/over-dumping and plastic under control by 2050. After that, the planet as we know it (yes, even the Plaza) will become a giant Apocalyptic movie set. And Humans with our gassy/trashy/smashy/TicToc... Continue