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 [...]
We just posted an editorial saying that state Sen. Pat Wiggins’ health problems are so serious that she needs to resign. You can read it here. With her health so obviously deteriorating, why haven’t her political allies, aides, family members or the legislative leadership pushed her in this direction? I’m [...]
If you want to talk more about the challenges Santa Rosa faces in balancing its budget, join us for a discussion today on KSRO 1350 "The Drive" at 3:30 p.m. I've been invited to come on and talk about my column last week ("SR has nowhere to go but pay cuts") in which I discussed the difficulty [...]
So what exactly is going to be Sen. Evan Bayh’s legacy? That he ran away at the opportune time - for the betterment of the nation? I don’t get it. There’s no health issue. There’s no political scandal, for a change. The guy’s a lock to be re-elected, but he [...]
Here’s a Twitter post from Jake Mackenzie regarding today’s Close to Home column by fellow SMART director (and supervisor candidate) Debora Fudge: “well said in rebuttal to the untruths recently perpetrated here for crass political purposes in the supes race.” Hmm. Before this, the kvetching from SMART board members was [...]
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This blog is written by Press Democrat editorial writers Paul Gullixson and Jim Sweeney.