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A shelter-in-place public health order is a not always a safe option for those at risk of intimate partner violence. Social isolation is a common tactic used by abusers to gain power and control over their victims. Isolation is all but guaranteed during the COVID pandemic. Studies have also shown an increase in intimate partner violence in the aftermath of natural disaster. Victims in Sonoma County are now more vulnerable than ever, with tempers fueled by the stress of COVID, wildfires, displacement, financial instability and increased alcohol and drug abuse.

With the start of the 2020 elections already underway I feel this need to address political advertising.

Through a series of mystical events, my wife and I attended San Francisco’s 50th Cherry Blossom Festival Parade in Japantown in Sunday’s wind and rain, and watched the Japanese anime’ masterpiece Your Name at the Kabuki theater the same evening.

Dennis Hunter: Outlaw Turned Cannabis CEO When I think of Dennis Hunter, 45, clichés come to mind like a flock of birds landing on an overhead telephone wire. Clichés also come to Hunter’s mind. I don’t mean that as a criticism. After all, behind almost...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says we are now living in a pandemic-caused economic recession that may crater into a full depression before it ends. Already, after just four weeks of sweeping business shutdowns and worker layoffs in Sonoma County, we are seeing the vulnerabilities,...

Our nation was founded upon the argument that no government can be fair and just unless the people who are being governed remain forever devoted to liberty and virtue. Our Founding Fathers argued long and hard about this predicament. They neither trusted themselves to be infallible, nor did they put their faith in the rule of a pure democracy or a monarch. What they did instead was, they compromised. They authored a constitution designed to preserve the rights of individuals and protect against the tyranny of the majority. They inserted many levels of “checks and balances” and they structured a government with clear separations of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial branches. They awarded every man the right to vote, but only for a representative and not a direct vote in the new congress.

Oct. 1 marks the Day of the Older Person and the kick-off of a weeklong International Active Aging Week celebration. Healdsburg’s population of persons over age 55 is 28.9%, and this trend continues to expand and. People over age 55 are expected to be one-third...