Off the Top of My Head: Another shooting
The shooter has mental health issues. Duh, I think anyone who perpetrates a mass shooting has mental health issues. I also believe most of us have mental health issues. The rest of us work at keeping ours under control. The problem is that it is getting harder and harder to do that.
A Founding Council Member’s Perspective on Sam Salmon’s recollections
My friend Sam Salmon misleads readers in writing (“General Plan Update” Commentary, The Windsor Times, April 28, 2016) that our “first Town Council looked at Windsor’s sphere of influence as an opportunity for growth while others living here desired to preserve open space and stop urban sprawl.” This comment distorts the motivations and commitments of the five of us who were elected from a field of 15 candidates to our first Town Council.
We are a racist country with a culture of tolerating it (copy)
We are a racist country with a culture of tolerating it. This can’t be news to anyone.
Good guys vs. bad guys
We’ve all played versions of the good guys vs. the bad guys game when we were growing up. We played cops and robbers and cowboys and Indians. Some of us played soldier games or just “skins” versus “shirts.”
Arts & Entertainment
Multicultural Center takes shape at Abel de Luna
Bursts of color explode from every corner and every angle of the newly repainted Abel de Luna Community Center on the north side of town. Fuchsia, sunflower, marigold, plum and chrysanthemum abut and juxtapose with one another on the many outside walls and columns, as two muralists work on their own visions of Healdsburg.














