March 30th, 2007 04:58pm
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Are rebates a racket? Many products advertise rebates, but the promises aren’t always what they seem. Only later, with the fine print in hand, does the purchaser find the rebate may not arrive for several months, or the rebate was less than advertised.
In Sunday Forum, columnist Paul Gullixson recounts his own experience and what he has learned about the rebate business.
Incidentally, you may have noticed the asterisk that advertised …
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March 29th, 2007 08:30pm
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Mark Twain is credited with saying that out West, “Whiskey is for drinking, and water is for fighting.”There’s really no evidence that Twain started that saying, but it’s a good quote and still true – particularly in Sonoma County.This afternoon, the Editorial Board met with four representatives of the Sonoma County Water Coalition which this month filed suit to prevent the Sonoma County Water Agency from moving forward with its …
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March 28th, 2007 08:31pm
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In our business, few issues generate more passion than immigration. Letters and online comments routinely make clear the writer’s disapproval of anyone with a different point of view.
A reader today suggested that we use one of our online surveys to measure local opinion on immigration. As it happens, we did. A year ago this week, we sought answers to six online questions.
The results offer validation for people of every viewpoint: …
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March 28th, 2007 03:19pm
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Two and a half weeks after the shooting death of Jeremiah Chass, many questions remain unanswered. Judging by letters and online comments, people are still trying to understand what happened in the struggle between the 16-year-old Sebastopol student and two Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies. The Santa Rosa Police Department, the outside agency assigned to the case, says the investigation continues.
But the passing of time has persuaded some groups that an …
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March 27th, 2007 05:04pm
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Less than a week after Elizabeth Edwards announced that her breast cancer had returned, President Bush’s press secretary, Tony Snow, has discovered that the colon cancer for which he was treated in 2005 has metastasized.
Snow, 51 and the father of three children, had surgery on Monday to remove a small growth in his abdomen. On Tuesday, the White House announced that the cancer was found in Snow’s liver. “His attitude …
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March 27th, 2007 12:05pm
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Local, local, local. In the Information Age, hometown news and opinion define our franchise You may read about Anna Nicole Smith or Alberto Gonzales at countless Web sites, but if you want to know about what people are doing and saying in Sonoma County, California, the search begins at pressdemocrat.com
Fortunately for us, an informal survey this week shows readers share this outlook.
In announcing the launch of The Insider …
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March 26th, 2007 07:45pm
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“We’ve been stacking bricks for a while and now it’s starting to look like a wall.”It’s an odd quote coming from an avid local environmentalist such as Mark Green. But in this case, it works. Green and Dan Schurman, executive director of the Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation, stopped by to meet with The Press Democrat Editorial Board today and dropped off two brick-like books. This is volume one and …
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March 23rd, 2007 09:16pm
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Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, reported on Thursday that her cancer has returned. For anyone whose life has been touched by cancer, her openness and determination likely brought back memories closer to home.
Bette DuBay, who taught third grade at Hidden Valley School, died in 1991, three years after her cancer was first diagnosed. She was 56 years-old, and she only missed her favorite event, …
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March 23rd, 2007 06:09pm
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Putting aside the sometimes-nasty debate over immigration reform, here are some facts worth considering: (1) Since 1995, almost a third of Silicon Valley start-ups were founded by Indians or Chinese. (2) Of the people earning doctoral degrees in computer science and engineering at leading U.S. universities, about 40 percentare foreign-born.
These numbers from The Economist could be a starting point for a conversation about what’s wrong with public schools in the …
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March 23rd, 2007 04:34pm
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In halls of learning, scholars seek truth and wisdom. At the University of Maryland, for example, researchers asked parents to catalog the time they spend with their children. Always willing to help, our lead editorial for Saturday imagines the diary of one harried parent.
Advisory: Don’t let your children read this. It contains secrets that should remain known only to parents.
At The Press Democrat, three people write editorials – …
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