Open Mic: Reply to the Social Security commissioner
"Your fraudulent letter confirms you don’t intend to do the job the American people have given you. That job can only be done by someone with thorough expertise in the field, and a passion to serve and protect our fellow Americans. You have neither. You only have the competence to do the job you’ve really been assigned: destroy Social Security."
Decoding Teenagers: Looking Good on Paper
My sister and nephew are in the throngs of his final college application process—the personal essay. This essay, they tell me, is a deal breaker. The 650 words have to wow the reader, impress them and bring them to tears. As my sister put it, “You have to look good on paper.”
Main Street: Changing scene in medicine
A sea change is underway in the medical field. The Healdsburg Medical Plaza, a group of offices that share a medical campus with Alliance Medical Center and Healdsburg District Hospital, got permission from the city last week to change its zoning to allow non-medical office uses.
Market Report: Welcome back
The April 17 opening of our Healdsburg Farmers’ Market this year feels like a reason to break out the champagne for me, for a few reasons.
Arts & Entertainment
Return to the Russian River
When Jake Messing stood in front of the mural he had just completed for Russian Riverkeeper on the north side of the nonprofit’s headquarters at 139 Healdsburg Ave., he had finished more than another mural. He had made a return to the source from the sea himself, like the salmon he portrayed.
