So some nut from Nigeria blows up his lap on a flight landing in Detroit on Christmas Day and now all travelers on U.S.-bound flights will be subjected to pat-down searches and will be banned from getting up from their seat for the last hour of their flight - whether [...]
Sonoma County government has a new song this Christmas season. It's called "Angels we have removed from on high." As noted in today's story by Derek J. Moore, Sonoma County's acting city manager on Monday ordered the removal of all stars, angels and other religious symbols from Christmas trees in county buildings. Frankly, [...]
The upcoming contest between Lee Pierce and Michael Allen may look and sound a lot like a campaign for the Santa Rosa City Council rather than the state Assembly. Get ready for a debate over growth and big retail. Allen, a Santa Rosa planning commissioner and aide to state Sen. [...]
A month ago, I wrote an editorial saying California had no need for a lieutenant governor and urging the governor to leave the job vacant until next year’s election. He didn’t. He picked state Sen. Abel Maldonado, a moderate Republican from San Luis Obispo. If you missed the headline, you [...]
Today you’ll find something different on our editorial page – two editorials on the same subject. The focus of both is the curious decision by Sonoma County Judge Ken Gnoss to knock nine years off the 12-year prison sentence of Dylan Morse of Merced for the drunken-driving accident that killed art student [...]
Apparently Assemblyman Jared Huffman – and possibly Rep. Lynn Woolsey’s – did have a hand in encouraging the U.S. Coast Guard to take another look at plans for a Dutra asphalt plant. And it sounds as if there are some legitimate concerns about whether barges moored at the proposed off-load facility near Haystack [...]
We just received word that the much-awaited Board of Supervisors review of the revised plans for the Dutra asphalt plant in Petaluma Tuesday has been postponed. It's now going to be taken up at the Jan. 12 board meeting. Word has it that the delay has to do with the U.S. Coast Guard getting involved. Apparently [...]
The people of our readership area appear evenly split over the president's decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, according to our latest online Press Democrat Editorial Board survey. We also asked readers their opinion about the president's decision to set a date of July 2011 for bringing some [...]
If I was a whiz with numbers, I probably wouldn’t be writing for a living. But I can count to ten, and I can read a calendar. Take a second to fill in your punch line … As we head into the final month of 2009, the newspaper is receiving [...]
We heard more than a few predictions of a great eastern migration during the budget meltdown last summer. Nevada even ran some radio ads inviting California businesses to consider moving. I’ll concede that I’ve pondered whether another state may be more hospitable, and the freshly paved highway felt awfully smooth [...]
Paul Gullixson
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This blog is written by Press Democrat editorial writers Paul Gullixson and Jim Sweeney.