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Lovely green lady

What makes housing “affordable?” Affordability is defined by state law as meaning housing that is affordable to households earning 80 percent or less of the area median income. In Sonoma County, the area median income for a four-person household is $75,900.  For many in the community, including veterans, seniors, working families, single-parent households and young professionals, the need for housing that is affordable is greater than ever.

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Not afraid of the dark

“Dorothy Parker – What Fresh Hell Is This?” a biography by Marion Meade. 451 pages with index and illustrations. The question is one that Parker often used to answer her telephone. The subject of this biography is often irascible, willful and not easy to like; she became a leading voice in The New Yorker at its inception, followed by several years working in Hollywood, friends with Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the entire world of New York writers who gathered at the round table in the Algonquin Hotel. Her response to meeting Will Rogers was, “I always liked a man I never met.” Meade manages to portray her subject in a sympathetic manner and gives us a portrait full of the life that Parker always exhibited across the years. Check it out.

Well met, Mr. Beauchamp

Editor: I read Ms. Hackett¹s letter from last week and I would