Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life,...

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What Exxon Knew About Climate Change<tim September 18, 2015
By Bill McKibben
...

A certain pesticide that’s been found to harm bees is no longer approved for use in the United States, after a federal appeals court struck down the Environmental Protection Agency’s authorization...

(Sitin' on) The Dock of the Bay
Song by Otis Redding


Sittin' in the morning sun
I'll be sittin' when the evening comes
Watching the ships roll in
Then I watch them roll away again, yeah
I'm...

September 1, 2015
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OpEd: Close to Home
Stealth move to allow intrusive development of the Agricultural areas of the Sonoma Coast
By...

Monsanto’s lawyers just convinced a judge to overturn Mexico’s ban on planting GMO corn -- threatening an 8,000-year-old farming tradition.

Mexico is the country where corn -- or maize -- was...

from the Press Democrat, 9/7:

Selling our land
EDITOR: I am in complete agreement with columnist Nicholas Kristof about the enormous value of our wilderness and public lands (“Ah,...

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City Winery in Napa to close Jan. 1

City Winery announced it will close its Napa venue at the end of the year, conceding that it was...

EPA Raises Alarm Over GMO Crops that Are Breeding Swarms of These Mutant Bugs
NationOfChange
9/2/15

One of the promises of GMO crops was that they would be more resistant to bugs and pests,...

from the Press Democrat, 9/2:

Dairyman hurdles
EDITOR: As Napa County struggles to rein in the growth of its wine industry, 33-year-old wine entrepreneur Joseph Wagner has turned his focus to...

About gory news stories, the general rule is: "If it bleeds, it leads." Because that's what people will read.....

from borowitzreport.com:

WICHITA (The Borowitz Report)—Saying that “things just didn’t work out,” the billionaire Koch brothers have decided to put Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker up for sale.
...

from borowitzreport.com:

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—As the United States’ bridges, roads, and other infrastructure dangerously deteriorate from decades of neglect, there is a mounting...

About 20 years ago, there was a list of the books that Berkeley prof's would like all the incoming freshmen to have read, and one was "How to Lie With Statistics".........there probably are even more...

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EDITOR: Gabriel Froymovich, a wine industry financial adviser, cries “mendacious hyperbole” in response to winery critics (“Keeping the grape debate in perspective,” Close to home, Aug. 22).

...

Letter to the Press Democrat, 8/25:

Imperial winery
EDITOR: After reading the article relating Joe Wagner’s desire to develop an industrial-level winery on the Dairyman site east of...

In praise of Women who read !

One morning a husband returns after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap .
Although not familiar with the lake , the wife decides to take the boat out...

from borowitzreport.com:

THE HAMPTONS (The Borowitz Report)—They don’t pay taxes. They circumvent our laws. They get free stuff from the government. They are America’s billionaires, and many...

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Close to Home: Keeping the grape debate in perspectiveby Gabriel Froymovich
(Gabriel Froymovich, a resident of Healdsburg, is founder of...

letter to the Press Democrat, 8/21:

Irrigation district plan

EDITOR: I’m alarmed by the wine industry’s intent to create its own irrigation district comprising five Russian River watersheds...

from borowitzreport.com:

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Amid the growing debate over building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, a new poll shows that voters who...

Heads up! Dairyman is still headed our way! And now he has a bigger war chest!

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Joseph Wagner shifts focus from Meiomi to Dairyman...

TED CRUZ MUST SHOW NATURALIZATION PAPERS TO KEEP HIS U.S. SENATE SEAT

https://www.examiner.com/article/ted-cruz-must-show-naturalization-papers-to-keep-his-us-senate-seat

Details have been...

Authors: Robert Reich ...

Why cats aren't Republican

by MessagingMattersFollow

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Sebastopol man invests heart, fortune in reviving hospital for western Sonoma County

August 15, 2015, 11:29PM
BY MARTIN ESPINOZA...

And: Hooray for BoDean Co. for donating the paving!

Hate to take lines out of context, but these few are sooo great:

Sara

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Windsor egg stand to reopen after asphalt donation

A small-time Windsor farmer who was forced to close his egg stand as result of a...

from borowitzreport.com:

CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE (The Borowitz Report)—Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is gaining legions of new admirers by shamelessly pandering to voters who want to hear...

from borowitzrepot.com:

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—In an effort to boost his foreign-policy credentials, the billionaire Donald Trump on Tuesday said that, if he were elected President, he ...

from Sunday's Press Democrat (letters to the editor):

Acknowledge impacts

EDITOR: It has been interesting to read the letters regarding “Big Oil” and “Big Wine.” Issues were raised about...

Yeah, I just got back from lunch there: Diablo Shrimp! OMG! With caramelized onions! Sooo good!

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<aside class="article-rail"> BY CLARK MASON
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
August 5, 2015, 6:05PM

Standoff with winery forces Windsor egg...

from borowitzreport.com:

MINNESOTA (The Borowitz Report)—Psychologists at the University of Minnesota have issued a research study recommending that people suffering from low self-esteem watch...

from borowitzreport.com:

CLEVELAND (The Borowitz Report)—As preparations get under way for the first Republican Presidential debate, on Thursday night, a new poll shows that Americans are deeply...

I guess this isn't the lion-killing dentist, but.....

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017283750

Letter to the Press Democrat, Friday 7/31:

Bernie Sanders’ platform
EDITOR: Voters need to be informed in order to make an intelligent decision in the upcoming presidential primary election....

At last, Vietnamese food in Sebastopol, and it's really good! The name is Lua Viet ( the owner/manager told me that Lua means rice) and it's in behind Starbuck's on Gravenstein Highway South, where...

from today's Press Democrat:

Attacking the messenger
EDITOR: Since Ernie Carpenter’s commentary appeared in the paper on July 15 (“Is Big Wine the Big Oil of Sonoma County?”), at least three...

from the borowitzreport.com:

MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report)—A group of scholars who have been monitoring the descent of the bar over the past few decades have concluded that the bar can no...

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July 18

by Martin Espinoza

Former Palm Drive Hospital poised to reopen as Sonoma West Medical Center...

from borowitzreport.com:

AMES, IOWA (The Borowitz Report)—Presidential candidate Donald Trump revealed a little-known episode of personal heroism from his youth on Saturday, telling an Iowa...

Umm, it wasn't Jim Wilson Shepherd was referring to; Jim Wilson is our local poet and co-owner of Many Rivers Books and Tea...he's certainly not a water-stealing wine-maker!

I don't think the new coloring of the post headers, etc. is as "readable" as the last ones, Barry; the muted blue color is harder for me to read, anyway......

AW

from borowitzreport.com:

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—With its landmark decisions this week, the United States Supreme Court has sent the Republican Party scrambling to find entirely new...

Ho, ho! I don't need laundromats anymore, but you're good! And funny!

Don't leave Fircrest Market off the list; I love that store. For a smaller market, they have a huge selection of stuff and a real butcher shop. I don't think they do this anymore (paper bags), but...

Absolutely, Jim; well put. If I weren't depressed after my son got killed, that would have been strange. I always thought that the bumper sticker that said "If You're Not Outraged, You"re Not Paying...