There's a right-leaning group called "Sebastopol Citizens" that was formed to oppose the proposed leaf blower ban in 2011. SInce then their leader, John Necker, has regularly attended City Council...

Ernie Carpenter speaks out against Winery Event Centers:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqBBTJ5-LNs&sns=em

I find this anti union invective very disturbing. Certainly there have been serious abuses perpetrated by unions, usually when the upper management lost touch with their membership and became another...

This project is clearly too big and too industrial for farmland and the Laguna location in particular. I plan to comment according to CEQA so that I am part of the record for environmental...

He's using the free market to generate income. Admirable, but nothing special. I won't be a customer, but good for him.

I have to disagree that it is difficult to get involved or express your views in Sebastopol. Sebastopol is a very small town and I find it remarkably easy to be involved locally. Yes, the city...

I've been lurking here on this conversation for a while, not wanting to weather the negativity of the naysayers, but Rustie has made it too easy with this line: I can't help but wonder what kind of...

The following article was published by The Huffington Post on July 22, 2014:

Jon Stewart Learns What Happens When You Talk About Israel

Many have accused Jon Stewart of being pro-Hamas for...

I need two pairs of eyeglasses, bifocals and computer (mid-range).

If you have filled an eyeglass prescription at Costco, I would be most grateful to know if it was a good experience or not.
...

Ideally you do both. First you find out (from some trusted source with real expertise on the specific subject and no obvious conflicts of interest), which of the studies were properly designed,...

I used to shop a lot at Pacific Market, and there was one group, I think it was Food for Thought, that would have volunteers outside, handing out flyers to shoppers as they entered. The flyers would...

I love piercings of all kinds but I'm curious to know if a lactating woman could have her nursing abilities reduced when trying to breastfeed her baby. Does anyone have any idea?

Thanks

Lost it while leaving basso building and going to my car, I love this sweater!
small reward if found...
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The argument in the past has been that if the upper middle class doesn’t get their very generous Social Security benefits, they won’t politically support Social Security at all. My own opinion is...

by Abraham Entin
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“For every 1000 hacking at the branches of evil,
There is one striking at the roots.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden


A month before the 2012 elections,...

THANK YOU BRET!! So honest and forthcoming (where you didn't need to be) and so well said!!! You put my post to shame, and I'm ok with that :)

Liz

I am not sure why or how this happened, but more than one of my friends heard I was against proposition 37.

Let me be very clear; I am strongly against all genetically modified foods. Even if...

after my daughter explained darth vader
is necessary to balance the force




your children
so frail & sturdy & beautiful—
you’d die for them,
do anything to stop tears,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mUEHpc6JKw8#!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rBj0joyCeag

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you're right as usual ernieman, especially contrasting the incumbent bs vs you're message. with all the forces lined up against you though, you just might lose. please don't take it personally. efran...

Dear Ones,

https://i.imgur.com/WfOrV.jpgThere are some differences between the incumbent and I. Enough that I decided to once again become a candidate for Fifth District Supervisor. My motivation...