The recent rash of teacher strikes across the US disgusts me
All across America teachers are going on or threatening to go on strike and it disgusts me.
It disgusts me that this is necessary; next to a parent or a preacher, who has more influence on our children, and our future, than a teacher? Americans...
Chico visit showcases the ‘Father of California agriculture’
Right smack in the middle of the campus of Chico State University a Victorian mansion sets among decades old camellias in full bloom.
Allocating our human capital
Old Testament prophecies say that after flood and fire comes famine and pestilence.
Having just been battered by historic wildfires and more winter floods, we worry what may be next for Sonoma County.
But, unless we are unseeing to our natural surroundings and our collective human...
Someday We’ll Laugh About This . . . Right? Adventures in Tortillas
A couple of weeks ago the students in my preschool class did a fun cooking project. They cut up the ingredients to make salsa, and then they got to help make corn tortillas from scratch, squishing the dough in between the paddles of the...
Humane Society of Sonoma County – Healdsburg Activity Log, March 21, 2019
Looking for a lost pet or a new four-legged friend? See the list of incoming strays and the slideshow of cats and dogs available for adoption from the Sonoma Humane Society, Healdsburg Center.
Youth activists to educate Windsor Democrats on the Green New Deal
A group of passionate, knowledgeable high school students, most of whom are part of 350 Bay Area’s Youth Vs. Apocalypse activism group, will present the Green New Deal to Windsor Democrats on Thursday, March 28.
A baby budget
This is the season when governments from The White House to local school boards start working on their new budgets. The federal budget is unfathomably huge at $4 trillion whereas some local school budgets are the size of a medium business. California’s budget is...
Arts & Entertainment
‘Angels’ lands at Raven Performing Arts
:Every Sunday matinee we do a post-show discussion with the audience, so they get a chance to make comments and ask questions of the actors. We saw there were a lot of people who were quite moved and quite touched by the play. So the opening weekend could not have gone better, as far as I’m concerned," said director Steven David Martin.
