First it was rogue city emplyees who allowed an electrical contractor onto city property without proper permits to dig a trench that not only damaged the roots of nearby trees but also damaged the...

To be clear. KOWS and the City of Sebastopol WERE sued! KOWS voluntarily withdrew it's application out of consideration for the city. It is very likely KOWS would have prevailed on the merits of...

CVS actually opened at 8 am yesterday not 10 am. Having planned to be their first customer at the new location I arrived at 8:15 and had to settle for second place. My purchase. A nice greeting...

This is an issue that has had me irritated for years. A landlord of commercial property wants to raise rents. The current tenant can't make the new rent and moves out. The property then remains...

Califoon,

My follow up to the the French Dip comment is when I went to the Arby's in Rohnert Park. They had a sign proudly proclaiming they served roast beef sandwiches with "Au Jus Sause."

Gee. I saw the typo, scrupulous vs. unscrupulous. I understood what the poster meant by the rest of their comments. But "Occupy the language?" Puleese!

What drives me bonkers about this thread is that there is no better way to determine whether or not a business deserves to be in a given community than if it survives in the market place. It isn't...