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September 9, 2025

Way to know

Oct. 2-8 is being celebrated as National Newspaper Week. This is the 76th annual observance dating to 1940, covering a span of time that has included great changes to the business of newspapers, as well as throughout our society.

High Five

I enjoyed reading Lynda Hopkins' article in the October 13

The elephant in the room

Recently there has been considerable attention directed towards Healdsburg’s lack of affordable housing, especially in regards to the “missing middle” working class families. This situation could be seen coming a long time ago and essentially took this long to boil over.

Here’s how state lawmakers want to help Californians facing high gas prices

There’s a collective groan, rippling across California, as drivers pull into gas stations and see prices above $5. 

Uniquely California: The Sonoma County Civil Grand Jury

When our forefathers drafted the California Constitution in 1849, they included a requirement that “One or more grand juries shall be drawn and summoned at least once a year in each county.” Today, California is the last state still to have a comprehensive standing...

Targeted universalism: A solution for inequality?

One in five Latinos in California live in poverty, the highest of any demographic group. Black students trail all other racial and ethnic groups in reading and math proficiency. And Native Americans are worse off today, with an average life expectancy eight years shorter than a decade ago.

From the Library

Editor's note: The Tribune accidentally printed an old From the Library column this week. The correct column, updated at noon on April 16, is below.

Who’s spending your taxes?

Guess what time it is? It’s time to dig out that shoebox full of crumbled paper receipts, mysterious and unopened forms from the bank and mortgage companies and also retrieve those annual W-2 statements and other miscellaneous pieces of paper labeled “Important Tax Documents Enclosed.” Hot diggity, it’s tax preparation season again.

Too liberal to know better?

It’s more than luck that us folks living in Sonoma County have things pretty good.

Housing solution is complex

Jim Brush, in his Tribune Commentary of March 10, shares his discovery of the reason that we have a crisis of unaffordable housing in Healdsburg: lack of supply, and the solution: completely terminate the Growth Management Ordinance.
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