Cat Kaufman, a local artist in Santa Rosa, is providing a free workshop March 10 for 23 individuals affected by the TUBBS Fire. They are bringing remnants of burnt objects and she will help them...

From following this important sheriff's election and reading the entire PD article, I plan to stick with my plan to vote for Mutz. Both of the other candidates would clearly continue practices as...

42172Susan Campbell gave me permission to forward the following email regarding John Taylor. I think that it puts John’s decision to take his own life, in the same way that that his sister did, in a...

thank you for this perspective and I want to say that I do agree, that we need to be focusing on the alternatives. In fact, that has really been my mantra-- build the new and we'll just outgrow the...

Thank you, AnnMarie, for opening this conversation.

We have to make this place be good for the other forms of life, because if it's not good for them, it's not going to be good for us either....

Thanks for opening this discussion. I want to second John Eder's call for boycott. I think it's time to take a stand against corporate bullying. We can't anticipate the results, but we know the...

I’ve compiled a brief list of resources for people who would like to take responsibility for staying informed of the many City and community meetings, forums, round tables, Town Halls and other...

I LOVE this so so much!! Thank you for posting this beautiful poem!

Here is a link to an article about negative impacts of tourism on local economies. Napa valley has made the mistake of developing a tourist economy, which ends up disturbing biodiversity and pricing...

A recent letter in the Sonoma West by Larry Robinson began, "It is difficult to find words to describe how appalled I am by Councilmember Sarah Gurney's comments at last week's council meeting...

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Upload the file on a torrent hosting site and give your friends the link:thumbsup:

I want thank everybody who wrote to the D.A. on behalf of Houston, and in particular, Magick, for helping to spearhead this initiative. It's been a great example of the community coming together to...

Thanks so much for posting this. You made my Memorial Day weekend!

I, too, hope that the people of this county are as smart as their Portland counterparts.

The task now, as I see it, is to...

This is my letter to Jill Ravitch. It is a little more edgy, and less kind. There is nothing wrong with constructive anger on occasion.

Ms. Ravitch,

The Houston Herczog case is truly tragic....

Here's my letter.

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Dear Ms. Ravitch,
I am another county resident deeply moved by this tragedy. I ask you please to do the human thing here and...

You can find a audio version of the complete article here.

I only met Houston Herczog briefly once that I recall, so I have no dog in this fight. But reading the Bohemian article makes the situation pretty clear. Having worked with many a psychotic person in...

The Bohemian article is here.
Jill Ravitch's email address is [email protected] (corrected)

I find this horrific, mean- spirited and far from community minded. I am really aghast that they are doing this and I hear they have written to all the Sunday market farmers trying to lure them away...

The Barlow management has applied for a permit to have a competing Sunday farmers market. we have talked about this before on WACCO and there was alot of feeling expressed that we should stay at the...

Barry, If you're taking an informal poll, then consider...

City Manager Larry McLaughlin said there is "no official city oversight" of the newsletter, which is "not intended to state city...

I think it was really too bad that former Supervisor Carpenter was not allowed to speak. I don't know what order the speakers were chosen in, but he put in a card at 2:30 and I'm sure others that...

Robert Jacob said it best at his Election night party: we citizens who have been repeatedly maligned in the local press, and by local reactionaries, as a "vocal minority," have emerged as a clear...

West County Hand and Physical Therapy, part of Palm Drive Hospital, bills as a hospital based outpatient therapy clinic. Our charges are based on procedures and not on hourly rates. These charges are...

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It is important to distinguish between individuals and even families who have incorporated a business, but which continue to reflect the values, good and bad, of the individual or family, and the...

Do the same thing you did to start your post (reply publically, new reply, or start a new thread). You should see "Restore Auto-Saved Content" in the lower left corner. Click it!

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:synchronicity:I love it when this happens... And it happens amazingly often!...

In tonight's digest there was microwave for sale followed by a microwave wanted. I went into yenta mode and...

Before I became a pro, and knew nothing about cameras, I went to a camera store, told the salesperson what I was looking for, and my budget. To get a referral seems easy, and there is information...

We are dealing with a perfect storm situation with the county on our unpermitted granny unit , an extortionist tenant and their preditory lawyer, and the expensive lawyers and the laws that allow...