Meg Whitman may have bought a horse race with her early ad blitz. The former eBay chief executive has left Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner in the dust, according to a Field Poll released today that gives her a 63 percent to 14 percent lead among likely voters in the Republican [...]
Sonoma County residents started receiving their 2010 Census forms today. But some addresses, they say, are wrong – as in they don't even have the right city. Virginia Pressler, a Santa Rosa teacher, first alerted me to the problem a week ago. She has lived in Santa Rosa for 18 years, but she said [...]
If you’re interested in the upcoming election, check out our new politics site, watchsonomacounty.com. Watchsonomacounty.com will include news stories, blogs (including this one), forums and other material related to state and local politics, especially the June 8 primary election. The filing deadline is Wednesday, so spring training is over and [...]
Well, it was not a bad showing for the first day of the iPLOD campaign. The balmy weather and abundant blossoms no doubt helped. At first, I was guessing about 40 people showed up for our hour-long walk Monday. But Becky Lunders of the iWALK program said [...]
OK. As I mentioned in my Sunday column, it's time to walk the talk. As an editorial writer, I've been writing plenty about our sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy dietary habits but have been setting a poor example. So it's time to do something about it. Today's the first day of the county's iWALK challenge, a [...]
F. Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives. But there are plenty in sports, and there are at least a couple of people seeking political comebacks in the vicinity this spring. To the south, Kerry Mazzoni, who represented southern Sonoma County in the state Assembly and [...]
"The proposed health care program is not the best, but it’s the closest we've ever come to having something that approaches universal; I don't think the opportunity is going to come again for a long time, and we need to get going on it now." - Linda Ward, Santa [...]
If anyone really doubted that the U.S. Supreme Court intends to overturn Chicago’s ban on handgun ownership, the justices’ comments during oral arguments this week should blow away those doubts. But, regardless of arguments to the contrary, the decision almost certainly will not be the death knell for reasonable state [...]
Paul Gullixson
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This blog is written by Press Democrat editorial writers Paul Gullixson and Jim Sweeney.