Sadness fills us following the death of Craig Von Dohlen, a Sonoma resident. We weren’t there, so we don’t know exactly what transpired, and we didn’t know the family, so we don’t know those dynamics, but the loss of a man’s life is cause for... Continue
Editorials
You are rich. Yes, you, dear reader, and we, too. Being “rich” meant, in the classic formulation, lighting cigars with $100 bills. That is, having so much wealth we can waste it. While no one really lights cigars that way, consider that we do use... Continue
Deep conversations with an enlightened soul – such as we had one recent morning – can inspire us to step back and ponder the much bigger picture. Is it that we are here on Planet Earth, in the Milky Way Galaxy, by random chance? Is... Continue
We’ve been reflecting this week on Sonoma’s good fortune to have Head Coach Mick O’Meara and Defensive Coach Mike Mulas as our high school football coaches. These men exemplify the values we seek to instill in our youth, and their 25-year, continuing tenure together with... Continue
As we look back on this week, with its extended Veterans Day celebration on both Monday (schools closed) and Tuesday (government closed), we can’t help thinking, too, of the many servicemen and servicewomen who did not come home – those who gave their very lives... Continue
The American Dream, fulfilled in our midst this very week. What a glorious occasion was Election Night 2008. So much commentary by the media in this campaign has been about race, about the racial make-up of our soon-to-be President Barack Obama. We think that what’s... Continue
As readers can tell from the number of letters published, the Editorial Board is being taken to task for not opposing Prop. 8, the ballot measure that would write into the state constitution the identical language that California voters passed in 2000. That earlier measure,... Continue
So read the editorial headline in the Washington, D.C. Weekly Standard last week, mourning the closing on September 30 of that popular New York City daily newspaper. The New York Times called the Sun “lively” and noted its numerous devotees across the cultural spectrum of... Continue
Gotta love California! Anybody with enough money can put anything on the ballot by using the petition initiative process. In this election cycle, only Propositions 1 and 12 were put on by the legislature. While our inclination is to vote NO, figuring that more laws... Continue
As always at election time, we offer you our thoughts on local candidates and ballot items. Fire District: This race for three seats has the three incumbents running for re-election and one challenger. The incumbents have all shown they are on top of the issues... Continue