Goals and good intentions

At the end of 2013, Sonoma City Council took another stab at setting goals for itself. The 2014/2015 goals can be found on the City’s website, and we encourage you to take a look. Whether we agree with the goals or not, Council’s purpose in... Continue

Creating affordable workforce housing

The demise of Sonoma's Redevelopment Agency has effectively ended its creation of significant workforce housing, housing that's affordable to the people who work here in the many service jobs in the hospitality and restaurant businesses -- housekeepers, wait-staff, kitchen workers, janitors and maintenance. Redevelopment agencies... Continue

Our Sonoma Valley family

Holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas are typically times when families celebrate together. Big meals are cooked and eaten, stories and gifts exchanged, photo albums hauled out and both naps and chaos reign. In the "Norman Rockwell" image of the holidays Mom proudly cooks a big... Continue

Searching for community

The word community used pretty freely. We talk about the business community, or the gay community, or the Latino community and so on. It seems we can throw the term community after almost any group and thereby unite or encapsulate any bevy of humans with... Continue

As goes water, so goes Sonoma Valley

SUN EDITORIAL Once famous for its precious metals, it's now water that's precious here in California. Our northern region was so water rich Southern California became America's food basket, the California water aqueduct system moving millions of gallons of Northern water south and huge pumps... Continue

Dodd for AD 4

Residents in the half of Sonoma Valley running from Boyes Hot Springs through Kenwood will have a new assemblymember by the end of this year. Five candidates — three Democrats and two Republicans — are running to replace 4th District Assemblymember Mariko Yamada, who is... Continue

Diana Conti for Assembly

In the 10th Assembly District Race, the incumbent, Marc Levine, has lined up an impressive array of supporters and almost certainly will make it to the November election – and likely win that. The question here, though, is what other candidate do we want to... Continue

On Measure B

The best argument for The Measure B electionis the weakness of the arguments against it. Like stale mints under the hotel pillow, they are rather hard to swallow. Granted, the transient occupancy tax (hotel bed tax) is a big chunk of the city revenue. Opponents... Continue

Opinions Count

Not ours, necessarily… but the collective opinion of our neighbors here in Sonoma Valley – that counts very high, in our estimation. To encourage discussions in coffee shops and market aisles ahead of the November 6 voting, we shared last week our opinions on some... Continue

Cook, Agrimonti, and Sawyer

The Sonoma Valley community is fortunate to have several citizens offering to serve as our elected representatives. We thank them, as we believe that just having a competitive election helps to energize local discussions about the appropriate role and reach of government. We trust the... Continue

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