Barry, You are right, of course. I just get so furious and feel so helpless every time I drive by, especially when traffic is especially heavy. Maybe a good course of action would be to demand...

There was serious objection to this awful development and much discussion and many meetings. It is not fair to condemn city officials. On behalf of the many residents who objected to the proposed...

Moon - I think this is a very good idea and timely. A group of us (called EACH - Elder Advocates for Community Health) went to Supervisor Carillo several months ago and asked his help for the...

I worked briefly on a contract basis for this organization. It is a well run, wonderful organization. Many years ago it operated a homeless shelter at the armory, but it has changed its function...

This seems to me a childish testing of wills that could have turned dangerous and should be avoided by citizens, and especially by police.

I facilitated a misdemeanor diversion class in Sonoma...

I'm a person with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and multiple allergies. I've been gluten-free for several years now, and years ago I was also gluten free. I find that when I eat gluten, I get dizzy...

I know from personal experience that inmates of San Quentin were regularly brought to Palm Drive Hospital for colonoscopies and various other procedures. My observation was that there were...

Lincoln changed and grew during his time as President. He no longer wanted to send blacks back to Africa. He became good friends with Frederick Douglass.

I think an affordable tiny house community is a very good idea and I would like to belong to such a group if and when it exists.

According to historian Doris Brin Walker, Lincoln wanted to free the slaves, but believed he had no constitutional right to do so. Later, during the later stages of the Civil War, he needed more...

Those two issues are not separate. Slavery was the basis of the economy in the slave states. To eliminate slavery was to destroy the economy of those states.

Without getting into the issue of whether war and killing are necessary, I would like to criticize any system which honors an individual for killing 160 people. It's one thing to say that killing in...

I appreciate this post and agree with it. If you need volunteers for your campaign, please let me know.

Barry - Thank you very much for this video.

On Tuesday August 19, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors is meeting. They have a large agenda, but several of the agenda items deal with homelessness, which there is a lot of in Sonoma County. ...

Barry - Thank you very much for this post.

So many important questions were not asked, some of which were not appropriate in this particular criminal inquiry.

For example:

Why didn't the...

I would be careful about recommending the methods of the Sebastopol and Cotati Police Departments. I taught a misdemeanor diversion class for Sonoma County in which all the participants discussed...

I agree this this message. A Military mindset is very different from a civilian mindset. Remember that the abu grave (sp) scandal was brought to light by an individual serving in the military who...

Why should police and sheriff's deputies routinely carry lethal weapons at all?
Why can't they use tazers, rubber bullets, stun guns etc., except for extreme situations?

I thought Anthony Weiner was the best/one of the best representatives in Congress. What he did was annoying, but not nearly as hurtful as the behavior of many other politicians. I would like to see...

I have been stopped many times by the Sebastopol Police for "non-offenses," but never given a ticket nor a warning. I believe my car was being profiled because it was an old car and needed a paint...

A colleage of Jonathan Frieman, David Cobb, who is one of the national directors of "Corporations are Not People," will be speaking on this subject at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Santa Rosa,...