Thanks yet again Jonathan for showing how the emperor has no clothes.

I am shocked by this scurrilous mailer. I believe the people of Sebastopol will have a similar reaction. The Press Democrat also begs to differ from the anti-Greenberg faction. This is from today's...

Re Progressive Sebastopol now endorsing YES on 45. Just heard on the radio that the NO on 45 campaign has reached $30 million...and counting. Biggest contributors are the health insurance companies. ...

Helen Shane must have read my post in the couple of minutes between when I originally posted it and when I deleted this sentence. I took it out because I didn't want to include anything even...

I won't speculate on why Helen Shane has devoted so much time and energy to discrediting Jonathan Greenberg. I'll only say that I have a very different opinion.

In my many years of involvement in...

I have to say, this is a great voter guide, even if I did play a small part in crafting it :). No-nonense, honest progressive assessments of the candidates and issues. I hope it gets a wide...

Mediation between the Board and the Foundation seems like the best way forward. What does the Board have to lose? It has already lost its credibility.

I agree with Gus and others that the Board members are susceptible to community pressure. Sent this to them today and urge all to contact them.

Dear Palm Drive Board members,

The events...

Councilman Eder,

It's easy to ridicule something if you rely on cheap jokes about conspiracy theories and avoid any reference to facts.

Jonathan Greenberg's exhaustively researched report on...

It's not just Waccobb. Scott's spot-on descriptions fit a sizable number of entries on most online forums I've seen. Discussions of even seemingly innocuous topics routinely spiral down into...

My daughter and her partner keep bees in Big Sur, and they just got a whole new bunch because all the ones they had are gone. Some swarmed--something made them decide to leave--and they think the...

I've enjoyed Lydia's delicious food in Fairfax; delighted to see they're now in Sebastopol. I think Sebastopudlians will love Lydia's. A couple of my favorites: the quinoa curry with cilantro-mint...

I sent the email below to CVS CEO Larry Merlo at [email protected]
Helen asked me to post it on waccobb, so here it is:

Dear Mr. Merlo,

I wholeheartedly applaud CVS for deciding...

Behavioral research shows that facts often don't help to dispel fears, but I wanted to post this anyway.

West Coast radiation from Fukushima disaster poses no risk, experts say
by Tony Barboza,...

Thank you for the correction. Certainly it's important to note that Community Market isn't tax-exempt. But I confess I am mystified by "sigh." As a worker at Community Market, I should have thought...

Correction: They are run by a board made up entirely of the workers and a general manager hired by the board.

Last night I went back to Community Market and talked to the manager with whom I'd originally spoken, who apologized for any confusion and referred me to Blake, who was very helpful in clarifying...

Thank you for the correction and for forwarding it to the market for clarification. I'll be interested to hear what they say.

Regarding distribution of the profits, I was told by the store manager...

Community Market is a business entirely run and owned by the workers. Workers get all the profits and make up the board of directors. Worker-directed businesses are the best answer for how to fairly...

Three cheers for Cotati! I think Cotati CC's unanimous vote, combined with the resignation of Lynn Silver Chalfin, signal the beginning of the end for the ill-conceived, misguided plan to fluoridate...

I plan on coming. Hope others do too. We need to come out and show the Council that a lot of us care about restoring the hours. This is public comment time so you won't have to hang around at the...

I agree we should restore the Sebastopol Library hours ASAP. Here's the email I sent yesterday to the City Council, edited for this thread:

Dear City Council,

I'm writing to urge you to restore...

I want to encourage everyone to come to the new Farmers Market on Thursdays in the Plaza from 5 to 8, actually more like 5 to 7:30 because of the earlier night.

We need to support this market so...

Let your reps know how you feel about the US bombing Syria.

Here's the contact info for our Senators and representatives: email links plus DC and local phone #s.

Barbara Boxer...

Dear Judge Chouteau,

My sympathies. Democracy is such a messy business--slovenly riff-raff showing up in the wrong places at all the wrong times loudly declaring their opinions, disrupting the...

Or if unable to come people could email the supervisors at
https://supervisors.sonoma-county.org/contactus.aspx?sid=1001

Personally I can't imagine Carrillo not resigning.

Thanks for your correction. I may not have remembered the DFW comment correctly. I agree with all your excellent points.

DFW biologist said bear population is expanding both in numbers and range and main cause is the ban on using dogs for hunting bears. The young bears here may be an example. Hope they made it across...

Here's a flyer I created to post and hand out, which Barry kindly made into a postable image. It's just a starting point. Please download it, change it if you wish to in any way, and distribute it....

Below are excerpts from https://www.sierrawild.gov/bears/faq, a govenment site. This is essentially what the DFW biologist Conrad Jones told me. One thing mentioned here, which Jones also alluded to,...

I think it's a great idea. I like the idea of offering to help raise funds. We could aim for a significant but doable number of signatures -- 100? -- and then request a meeting with a rep from F&W...

How about going back to the bear and improving his chances?

This is mostly a repeat of my previous post but I think it's worth repeating.

The only ways to improve the bears' chances that have...

What would the petition say?

I am not an expert on the F&G and haven't had any prior experiences with them, but in my two recent conversations with them I found both people I spoke with to be sympathetic, informative, and fully...

Not such good news today.

This is an update to my post yesterday where I reported on my conversation with Larry, a volunteer at F&G, who said they will move the bear. Apparently Larry didn't have...

Can't we all just get along?
That is everyone's hope, of course. But it's comforting to know that if things go awry that F&G can come and move the bear(s), rather than kill them.

Good news! I just talked at length with Larry at the wildlife desk at F&G.

F&G does have the resources to tranquilize and move the bear, (or sometimes they will simply capture it without...

The Bear's Song
(more verses invited)

My momma told me, https://img826.imageshack.us/img826/5280/musicbear.png
you're on your own now
No room for you here,
You'd better move on.

So I...

We all agree that fluoridating Sonoma County's public water supply is a terrible idea. Let's not waste our energy quibbling about how much or how little fluoridated water would be ingested by...

Why can't Fish and Game sedate the bear and move it to the reserve?

This is from the Planning Commission's online agenda (Caps in the original).

https://ci.sebastopol.ca.us/sites/default/files/events-and-meetings/pc_agenda_05.14.13.pdf

A. USE PERMIT -...

I am not even remotely concerned with what may or may not have occurred in the past.
That's unfortunate, because it does matter.

Willfully and blatantly lying
Nancy, You seem to feel it's OK to use this kind of abusive language in your posts. I don't think I'm the only Wacovian reading them and thinking it's definitely not.

I suggest everyone talk to the vendors--our friends--at the Farmer's Market ASAP. Let them know how we feel about a competing Sunday market, and tell them we will not patronize such a market. The...

In addition to telling the Barlow what you think of a competing Sunday market, there is an easy way to kill this ill-conceived idea. If they are dumb enough to go ahead with a Sunday Farmer's market,...

There's no contradiction between the plausible claim that raw dairy may prevent cavities and someone getting a slew of cavities following a year of raw food. That person, I'm willing to bet, ate a...

Robert Isaacson served on a committee convened by the National Research Council (NRC) in 2003 at the request of the EPA to study the effects of fluoride in drinking water. He is a distinguished...

I will also write to Efren urging action. A barking ordinance for the out-of-city limits areas is badly needed.

What's significant here is how normally decent folks are driven to such caninecidal thoughts by the barking. I certainly have been! My super-ego is in firm command and I wouldn't ever actually harm...

There's a great article by Tracy Rosenberg in Counterpunch about Dan Siegel of SaveKPFA.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/09/the-battle-for-clarity/ .