Editor: Representative Ron Paul has introduced Bill HR 1830 in Congress to remove a federal ban on raw milk because last year, with guns drawn, police officers blazed into a food club in Venice, California, a dairy in Missouri, and other locations, to protect Americans... Continue
Letters To The Editor
Editor: “The Rocky Horror Show” is a polished, professional, thoroughly enjoyable and fun show. Five stars, no points off. Go see. Jim Kent Sonoma Continue
Editor: Kudos to the Sheriff’s deputies for busting the indoor marijuana farm and cloning operation recently! The good burghers of Glen Ellen will now be free of one less drug operation. But alas, the problem still remains in Glen Ellen as in the rest of... Continue
Editor: On the evening of July 7, my husband and I had the greatest pleasure of seeing “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” live! onstage! with fabulous audience participation at the Community Center. Jonathan leaned over at least three times during the performance to tell me... Continue
Editor: Our current big box/chain store conversation will not be resolved by a committee but by demand-side market capitalists: i.e., Ordinary Consumers. In that regard, the “Shop Sonoma” campaign will need to be re-tooled. As is, it essentially asks consumers to be stupid with their... Continue
Editor: California has just cut Supplemental Security Income for the Destitute Disabled for the fourth time in the last two years. Anyone receiving SSI is officially listed as “very very low income,” living well below the poverty line. These people, if single, must live in... Continue
Editor: This is regarding what has become a feud between the new beer tavern Hopmonk and the neighborhood residents Everyone involved, Planning Commission, tavern owner, neighbors, seems to have lost sight of what is at stake here. It is not the volume of the music,... Continue
Editor: The Bongiovanni family (Keith, Patty, Return and Dominic) of Sonoma recently returned from a trip to Italy. The impetus for our trip was a five-day package in Lucca, generously donated by Margarita Ramirez-Dalton of Traveling Matters to a fundraiser for the Sonoma Ecology Center... Continue
Editor: I just love how this “issue” is all about everything except the truth. The debate is cloaked with phrases like “box-store” and “small-town charm” and blah blah blah. The truth is…we’re kind of snobs. People are up in arms because a big chain is... Continue
Editor: What do Abraham Lincoln and Adolf Hitler have in common? Both financed economic development during a national crisis with “fiat” money, as explained in Ellen Hodgson Brown’s book, Web of Debt, the focus of a weekly study group in May. Ellen Hodgson Brown has... Continue