Letter from the Editor
David Bolling: Trump, Cancer And The Big Lie
According to Mark Twain (and countless other famous people credited with the quote), “A lie will fly around the world and back while the truth…
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Public Citizen
Larry Barnett: Our American Crisis
There is a point of view that argues America’s crisis is inevitable, that authoritarian barbarity is baked into our system and it’s what we have…
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Food and Wine
Kathleen Hill: Food and Wine News
Restaurant Updates, Soroptimists Honor Colleen Ganaye, Speakeasy Gay Nights, Liz Cheney’s Turkey Dinner Great news at The Mill Executive Chef Dana Jaffe has returned to…
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Snark Infested Waters
Bob Edwards: Protecting Apex Predators
Animal Rights activist Zoe Rosenberg was arrested in 2023, tried in late 2025 and recently sentenced to 90 days confinement (jail and home) for taking…
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As I See It
Will Shonbrun: Democracy Depends Upon US
In a famous and well -worn phrase attributed to Benjamin Franklin when asked what kind of government the Constitution gave us, he replied, “A Republic,…
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Cartoons by Hilary
Cartoon by Hilary: “We could read the news, but then we’d know the news.”
Hilary Campbell is a The New Yorker Magazine cartoonist, author and humorist who just happens to have been born and raised in Sonoma.
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What's Up With That?
Katy Byrne: What Is Real Power?
Researchers have discovered in Hitler’s DNA evidence of Kallmann syndrome, a genetic disorder characterized by, among other things, a small you-know-what. It might be easy…
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Community Voices
John Staley: A Decade Without Decadence
By John Staley Sobriety is a pain in the ass – inconvenient in other words. When I decided to quit drinking ten years ago, I…
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Voices of the New Majority
Loretta Carpio-Carr: Happy Autumn!
My neighborhood in Sonoma’s west side has a lot of foot traffic – students walking to and from school, patients going to their medical appointments,…
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Rude Awakenings
Catherine Sevenau: Through Any Given Door – A Family Memoir Prologue
My brother Larry thought Mom was a good mother, but he had a different childhood than we did. My sisters were convinced otherwise: Carleen complained…
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Sonoma Farm Scene
Seth Dolinsky: Community Gardens, Community Farms?
Second of Two Parts By Seth Dolinsky The first installation of this article looked at the benefits of community access to land for food production.…
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Personal/Political
Josette Brose-Eichar: What is Weird?
Growing up I was told I was weird, not normal. Small and skinny with curly hair that stood on end, because my mom put a…
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Wild Valley
Helen-Teri Shore: ‘Shrooming Season
Mushrooms seem to be everywhere right now, pushing up from the earth through damp, disintegrating leaves and mud, growing on logs and trees, or popping…
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