What is Santa Rosa's most hazardous intersection? If you guessed Fourth Street and Farmers Lane, you know something about that most dreaded of Santa Rosa birds, the Red Light Runner. Our lead editorial for Thursday takes a look at 2006 accident statistics and suggests some solutions.Hint: Green means go; red [...]

Can an Indian tribe that hopes - some day - to operate a Las Vegas-style casino resort in Rohnert Park afford to bankroll now a hospital that is losing $11 million a year?That's only one of many questions left unanswered by a surprising proposal from the Federated Indians of Graton [...]

Here's today's Press Democrat secret: Our lead editorial for Tuesday was written by the board president of the California First Amendment Coalition and the state coordinator of Sunshine Week. Not bad, huh?As it happens, one guy occupies both of those prestigious jobs, and his name is Gullixson - Paul Gullixson, [...]

We created the Insider blog to cover the 2006 elections and then put it on ice - expecting to bring it back for the 2008 elections.But editorial writers can change their minds - sometimes a certain flexibility can be useful - and so we have. Beginning now, the Insider is [...]