Please vote for Gail Thomas and Rob Carey to join the 'doc and the cop' on the board. FYI, in case you didn't know, or forgot, Marsha Sue Lusting (who is running quietly, again) already led the...

If all of the energy that has been expended attempting to destroy the hospital were devoted to helping it be successful it would be very successful and an even greater asset to West County!

Donna,

Thank you for your kind words.
At this point, I do not take personally the attacks in the paper but I think it is important to understand why people have been opposed to the hospital and...

I had occasion to use the emergency facilities last February, and was very impressed with the experience! I, too, am grateful that it's there.

The reason we taxpayers got a great deal, and the reason we have an open hospital right now, and the reasons that people's lives have been saved in the reopened hospital during the past year is...

The Story of our Hospital
Part 2: How Taxpayers Got the Deal of the Century With Sonoma West Medical Center
By Dan Smith

Candidates for the Palm Drive Hospital Board have tried to inflame...

The Story of our Hospital
Part 1: Why Urgent Care Isn’t an Option
By Dan Smith

Once again, candidates for the Palm Drive Health Care District are advocating to close our Emergency Room and...

The Story of Our Hospital
A Personal Introduction
By Dan Smith

At the risk of stirring up even more confusion, I have decided to publish a series of short WACCO articles on Sonoma West Medical...

Well at least Jonathan Greenberg, an excellent reporter himself, has the wherewithal to call the local West County paper on its shoddy reporting of a complex situation that should have been focused...

I too posted a letter to Sonoma West. I don't know the various people involved, and I don't know the merits of the charges, but for me this journalism was on the level of junior high kids talking...

Call Off the Dogs

I was sorry to see Sonoma West's attack piece on Dan Smith. It was largely the complaints of the losers of the Palm Drive Health Care District election.

The election is over...

As noted earlier, the latest issue of the Sonoma West contains an unusual lead article for a weekly local newspaper that ostensibly supports the interest of the community it serves. The front page...

Here's a copy of the letter I sent to the editor of Sonoma West Times & News, in protest of the yellow journalism (full of mistruths, nasty, provocative) of their front page article this week, Dec....

​Great list Barton!

One big thing missing though:

I would like to add Dan Smith and Joan Marler to this list, the two people who have refused to allow Palm Drive Hospital to remain closed....

Palm Drive Hospital (or whatever new name) reopening and the City Council taking some initiative to seek ways to help and support, rather than waiting to be asked. That's not the way our City Council...

Scamperwillow,

First, I want to agree with you that the Palm Drive District Board members are not "self-interested, vindictive people." I have found no evidence of any corruption on the part of...