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Despite the absence of an election for City Council, since Amy Harrington and Jack Ding earned seats due to a lack of other candidates, there are a number of important measures on this year’s ballot. Voters are being asked to approve four different measures: renewal... Continue

Measure V: The permanent temporary half-cent sales tax

On this year's ballot the City of Sonoma is asking voters to approve Measure V, the half-cent sales tax first approved in 2012 and renewed, for another five years, in 2016. Each time, the pitch was that the tax was temporary, that it would automatically... Continue

Distance learning isn’t perfect – but it’s working

When the pandemic flipped the education system upside down six months ago, people had concerns about how kids would finish the year. Here we are in a new school year and still dealing with Covid-19. At the start of the spring shutdown, the district rushed... Continue

A new vision for local governance

This pandemic has proven that many of our assumptions about social structures are wrong. Conventional truths about working, economic stability, education, and community have all been challenged. Office workers need not spend hours commuting each day to sit behind a desk and work on a... Continue

Monumental decisions

At each major turning of the wheel of history, the symbols of the formerly powerful are destroyed. These iconoclastic urgings result in the destruction of the religious or political statues and monuments of those who subjugated others, and provide expression to the accumulated frustrations, suffering,... Continue

Facing the facts about masks

Every legitimate epidemiologist agrees that by wearing face masks the public can greatly reduce the transmission of Covid-19, yet a significant number of people ignore that advice, even flaunt it. Despite mounting evidence that the recent upsurge in Covid-19 cases is due to socializing by... Continue

It’s time to change the culture of policing

The behavior and accountability of law enforcement has emerged as a huge issue. The murder of George Floyd set off ongoing nationwide protests and demonstrations calling for systemic change. Some voices are calling for law enforcement funding to be reduced; if that means redirecting some... Continue

Editorial: Boarded windows send the wrong message

The protests roiling our nation have but lightly touched Sonoma Valley, but all of us here feel the tension and despair that's broken out in city after city. Looting has occurred, and it's been an unwelcome distraction from the airing of legitimate grievances about... Continue

Thinking outside a brand-new box

People don't change long-standing habits easily; where we shop, what we eat, how we speak, ways we dress, and so forth, become firmly established within the on-going conduct of our lives. Even when we learn that our behavior has a negative effect on society, the... Continue

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The coronavirus pandemic is killing a horrifying number of people; it's also finishing off America's local newspapers, which have been in a state of decline for decades. But the joint pressures of online news and economic recession may be the death knell for print journalism... Continue

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