Boo hoo.
A second Press Democrat, aka Big Wine apologist & cheerleader, we don't need.

It is hard to understand what the planners were thinking. The difference between Petaluma (or Windsor, or Healdsburg, etc) and Santa Rosa is that Courthouse Square is just not that visually enticing...

Do you support tourism and tasting rooms on the Sonoma Coast?
The next public meeting for the new Local Coastal plan is THIS SATURDAY, December 14 10 am-12 pm at the Bodega Bay Fire Station, 510...

In response to your statement "they use no more water than a farm" here are some specifics. Actually cannabis uses a great deal of water. Much more than vegetables or many fruits.
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Below are...

This week, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, the federal judge in San Francisco overseeing 620 cases involving Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller and cancer victims, ruled that evidence against Monsanto...

Tommy---if you're looking online, best to go to the research.
Here's an excerpt from a letter I posted on Nextdoor:

Roundup may not be illegal, but that doesn't mean it is safe to use. For many...

Ray50sfo, you may not know that Shepherd has been working many years to hold the Wine Industry accountable. Unfortunately, our county has elected, and continues to elect, supervisors who only drag...

I too appreciate Shandi for having brought this topic to my attention. I never gave or received a pet for Christmas as a child, and as an adult either would be out of the question. I think what...

Close friends living off-grid in CO have a pair of very low-tech compost toilets made from 5 gal. buckets and I love them. No waste of precious drinking water. No loud flushing. And fantastic compost...

The following letter was published in the PD on Friday 9/7 and in my opinion, raises legitimate concerns as to the Wine Industry's negative effect on our county:

Defining sustainable
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I believe the question should not be "can she do it" but "should she do it". I realize that it's rarely a bright idea to take a position against a MOM but with the way the "first world" nations suck...

I agree with both Kane and MikeH: I do want farmworkers to have housing, but I believe the businesses (namely, the Wine Industry) that profit from their low wages and poor working conditions don't...

Below is a post I wrote for a thread about the strawberry field and the related spraying of vineyard poisons on Nextdoor Sebastopol. I was responding to a local grape grower who isn't convinced that...

Thanks to Shepherd and O.W. for clarifying the effects of glyphosate and Acramite. It is not acceptable to me to eat fresh fruit or drink wine tainted by such poisons. Therefore, I'm buying only...

I agree w/rossmen; the hotel will be much taller and make more of an impact than we think. Hello, $300- 600 are rich people hotel rooms! I worked on the Plaza in Sonoma in the '80's when it was still...

I will not shop in the new monstrosity CVS has put up, for reasons of bullying and traffic. Not to mention the folks at Rite Aid have always been nice.

You can take it to the recycle area at the Sonoma County Landfill on Meacham Rd. in Petaluma and they'll sell it. I have gotten lots of good weedeaters there. Someone will know how to fix it.

I had first a sigmoidoscopy then a colonoscopy. I am a Kaiser Permanente member, and while I have some issues with Kaiser, in general I feel that I receive reasonable care. They have you do a...