Regarding the lawsuit challenging the Sonoma Developmental Center plan: the Board of Supervisors actually reduced the amount of affordable housing by nearly 50% of the amount recommended by the Planning Commission — to 124 on 750 potential units, despite their talk about affordable housing needs.... Continue
Letters To The Editor
The Sonoma Valley Cannabis Group believes now is the time to move forward with the second dispensary process. Setting this as a high priority will allow the city to receive additional tax revenue sooner than later, as well as provide patients and consumers with fairer,... Continue
I write this eulogy while looking across one of the ten-lane freeways P-22 somehow miraculously crossed in 2012, gazing at a view of his new home, Griffith Park. Burbank Peak and the other hills that mark the terminus of the Santa Monica Mountains emerge from... Continue
In 2001 our government, which is run by people sworn to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic, passed and signed into law the PATRIOT Act, which asked us to give up our constitutional rights to privacy and protection from illegal... Continue
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has proposed to make it much more expensive for consumers to go solar starting in April 2023. Specifically, the CPUC is proposing to slash, by 75% on average, the credit that new solar users receive for sharing their extra... Continue
With fewer than half of us saying we are financially comfortable in these hard times, members of the Sonoma United Methodist Church strongly support local-government action to alleviate the Valley’s housing problems. And we are willing to take action to help each other and to... Continue
As residents of the Boyes Hot Springs, we attended both public meetings last week– one in English and the other in Spanish– addressing the question of establishing a plaza in the parking lot next to the Boyes Hot Springs post office building (18092 Sonoma Highway).... Continue
Lost in the talk of a plaza being developed in/for the Springs is that an underground parking garage will first be build in the location, then the Springs Plaza will be developed on top of that. It is not a surprise that this important information... Continue
Thank you to everyone who voted in the Midterm Election yesterday, and especially to those who voted to re-elect me. Serving the people of the district where I was born, grew up and raised my family is the greatest honor of my life. I am... Continue
Veterans Day, recognized on November 11, represents a time for Americans to come together to celebrate and commemorate the bravery and sacrifice of everyone who has served. The holiday began in 1919 when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11 as Armistice Day to memorialize the... Continue