Letter from the Editor
David Bolling: Crypto Corruption and Cowardly Judicial Candidates
On January 17, 2025 – three days before Donald Trump was inaugurated for the second time as President of the United States, a Trump bitcoin…
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Public Citizen
Larry Barnett: Lessons from the Garden
For a while the idea of talking to your houseplants gained an audience. As living things, both plants and animals exist at a vibrational level,…
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Food and Wine
Kathleen Hill: All New Santé, SVVGA Plans, Mothers’ Day Meals, Mozaik Golden Hour
Santé’s fabulous re-do at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn A few of us were invited to sample the new experience one finds at the Fairmont Sonoma…
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Snark Infested Waters
Bob Edwards: Everything About Election Season
California‘s 2026 Election Season officially began with the arrival of the “Primary Election Offical Voter Information Guide” at every Valley household harboring a registered voter.…
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As I See It
Will Shonbrun: Jarvis And Me II
(Editor’s note: This is the second of two reports on death row inmate Jarvis Masters, a practicing Buddhist convicted of producing a weapon used to…
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Cartoons by Hilary
Cartoon by Hilary
Hilary Campbell is a New Yorker magazine cartoonist, humorist and author who just happens to have been born and raised in Sonoma.
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What's Up With That?
Katy Byrne: Honoring Females on Mother’s Day
All You Mothers “You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the…
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Community Voices
Walt Williams: Living In Two Worlds
I live in two worlds. One side is pictures of smoldering rubble and bombed out concrete buildings in Iran, Ukraine, Gaza. The other is a…
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Voices of the New Majority
Loretta Carpio Carr: Giving of Your Heart, One-by-one
Along with the rising cost of gasoline, insurance, groceries, water, gas and electricity, and taxes, I have noticed the increase in ticket costs to attend…
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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: Friday Farmers Market – Local Food Central
Sonoma’s Friday Farmers market – officially the Sonoma Valley Certified Farmer’s Market (SCVFM) – has been the Valley’s main source for locally produced food for…
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Personal/Political
Josette Brose Eichar: Toxic People in Positions Of Power
I graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1979 at the age of 27, with dreams of becoming a famous fashion designer.…
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Wild Valley
Helen-Teri Shore: Burn Piles or Critter Condos?
What To Do with Burn Piles? Lately I’ve seen burn piles of oak limbs, bay branches, manzanita and tangled grass and leaves in parks and…
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