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Letters To The Editor

Taxpayers pay for lobbying in Sacramento

The latest lobbying reports are out in Sacramento, showing how much special interests are spending to influence lawmakers. After reading the reports, you can’t blame taxpayers for feeling like the man who has been unjustly condemned to the gallows and is compelled to pay for... Continue

Comments on Brown Act were cynical, unfair

The August 17, 2017, column by Bob Edwards, “Olly olly oxen free”, presents a cynical, and I believe misleading, view of the purpose and enforcement of the California open meeting law, or Brown Act, that requires response.  Whatever Mr. Edwards may think about the substance... Continue

Hotel EIR is well flacked, but flawed

A few weeks back another newspaper printed a letter from Steve Page in defense of Mr. Anderson's hotel (Sonoma Hotel Project) environmental impact report. Steve Page knows all the tricks on how to get a very flawed EIR through the system. Steve is employed by... Continue

Who runs things in the Valley?

Let me get this straight. A guy got up at a School Board meeting, lauded the suddenly departing superintendent of schools, threatened one board member with recall, later another, and was chosen interim school superintendent. Another guy got up, said he didn’t think the superintendent... Continue

‘Corporate behavior’ at Family Resource Center

As members of the Elders Salon we are seriously distressed by the rapid restructuring at the Family Resource Center. This seems a top down bureaucratic decision on the part of La Luz management—corporate behavior, in other words. We are led to surmise that the decision... Continue

Too late to save ‘quality of life?’

It does not surprise me that letters in Darius Anderson’s newspaper, The Sonoma Index-Tribune, have been pro-Hotel. It is his project and it is his paper. A hotel of this size so close to our sacred historical Plaza is not a good idea, in my... Continue

Common view of education ignores unjust, racist concepts

In the editorial "The Meaning of Education" which appeared in the Sun's July 6th edition, it's frustrating to see the familiar, glowing descriptions of the founding fathers and a romanticized view of literacy and education in 18th Century America.  I understand the urgency of addressing systemic... Continue