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Letters To The Editor

A new Hotel and GHG Emissions

Dear Editor: In the course of discussion by the City Council and Planning Commission whether to approve Hotel Project Sonoma, the construction of a new up-scale hotel in downtown Sonoma, the issue of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from air travel by tourists staying at the hotel... Continue

Sanctuary City status for Sonoma?

I have a few questions, re: Sanctuary City status for Sonoma 1. Has the City of Sonoma declared an actual sanctuary status? And if so what does that actually mean as per response to ICE and/or Homeland Security forces arresting Sonoma residents in the City?... Continue

Springs Plaza Funding Still Unspent

As a former member on the Springs MAC (2019-2021), a community leader of the Springs Community Alliance (2012-2019), and a representative on the Springs Redevelopment Advisory Committee (2006-2012) I was deeply involved in the planning for the Springs Community Plaza. Your article referred to Susan... Continue

Thanks Sonoma Valley Sun

Dear David Bolling: Many thanks for the article about the Cancer Support Sonoma Organization. I belong to the Cancer Support group which interesting enough turns out to be a fun group, who love each other. Sonoma Sun as a whole has been cranking our great... Continue

Fix Our Forests Act Will Destroy Them

Dear Editor, I just visited the redwood country and wilderness forests that stretch from the cool coastal range to snow topped alpine ridges in the interior mountains in Northern California. Hiking through groves of redwoods adorned with bouquets of trillium and along clear rivers ringing... Continue

For Whom Doth The Bell Toll?’ 

In memoriam to Sonoma's KSVY Radio co-founder and veteran broadcast producer, John Myers, who died suddenly and mercifully exited this life quickly a few days ago. When your 74-year-old co-host, born in the same year as you, doesn't show up for the Wednesday gig because... Continue

A Stupid Idea for Its Time

Has anyone stopped to think that building houses in substantial numbers on rural mountain land, such as the Sonoma Developmental Center's (SDC) land currently for sale, is a really stupid and dangerous idea? This land is a welcome target for wildfires. For that matter, so... Continue

Suggests Integrative Care for Cancer, Too

David’s article pulls a curtain aside to expose local integrative care services. It’s initial and continuing focus for cancer care adds a significant missing piece as described in Kara’s story. Unlike the unfortunate myth of eradicating cancer popularized in public policy “wars on cancer” and... Continue

About “When Assholes Rule”

Yeah, yeah, I know… There’s going to be those who will say that such language is uncalled for. That crude and vulgar assertions are inappropriate and should only be heard between close friends or peers; such talk is for the Friday night poker game with... Continue

About the Hanna Roundabout

It’s unfortunate that people who are ignorant of the design and thought put into the Hanna roundabout keep spouting their ignorance around the “distractions” and limited “view of traffic.” The design of the roundabout was carefully thought out, with input from research on other roundabouts... Continue