Columns

We warned ourselves very early that recovering from the historic North Bay wildfires would take more time than we could imagine and that there would be unknown and invisible consequences.

Our Sonoma County, like the rest of the country these days, has been filled with political marches, public square demonstrations and other louder than usual exercises of free speech. But in some places there also has been violent backlash, arrests and both high-decibel heckling...

This newspaper has received its fair share of questions, criticisms and abuse of late. Some readers don’t like our tightening news pages and new emphasis on digital news delivery. We’ve tried to explain the changing business of newspapers, but not everyone is getting the...

We wish we had invented the concept of alternative facts a long time ago. Readers couldn’t imagine how much easier our news reporting jobs would be. When Mr. Trump and his spokespeople fabricated extra millions of people at his inauguration and millions more phantom cheating voters, they had no idea how liberating alternative facts could be.

Next to tackling our affordable housing crisis, most Sonoma County voters and taxpayers put fixing their horrible roads at the top of their “to do” lists. Let’s just hope that when it comes time to join the rest of California and spend billions on...

Monday’s Healdsburg City Council meeting agenda was long, and by far the most consequential item on the agenda was the last item: deciding how to move forward with Mayor Leah Gold’s soon-to-be-vacant council seat. Three options were on the table: to leave the seat vacant until a special election could be held; to make a short-term appointment to the seat, which would then be permanently filled by special election; or to appoint someone to the seat’s full remaining term of around two years. What resulted was a travesty of bureaucratic proportions.