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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 [...]

By | March 30th, 2007|0 Comments

Water is for fighting – in court

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 [...]

By | March 29th, 2007|0 Comments

The immigration divide

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. [...]

By | March 28th, 2007|0 Comments

Should local police actions be subject to citizen review?

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 [...]

By | March 28th, 2007|0 Comments

Cancer

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 [...]

By | March 27th, 2007|0 Comments

Support your LOCAL blog

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.comFortunately [...]

By | March 27th, 2007|0 Comments

Building a new Laguna

"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 [...]

By | March 26th, 2007|0 Comments

Elizabeth Edwards and memories closer to home

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 [...]

By | March 23rd, 2007|0 Comments

They are the unintended victims of the immigration debate

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 [...]

By | March 23rd, 2007|0 Comments

Attention: Frazzled parents everywhere

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. [...]

By | March 23rd, 2007|0 Comments