What time is it?
There are two looming events on our calendars that may further confirm the difference between compulsory law and bendable customs.
Editorial: No on Measure T
We haven’t changed our opinion about efforts to remove fluoride from Healdsburg municipal water.
Bring it on
Turn the clock back 50 years and we would not be engaged in a debate about greenwashing. At that time most people didn’t think about reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, conserving water or implementing “sustainable” practices on their working lands.
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.
Good and healthy
The news this week is good. Sonoma County was just rated the eighth healthiest county in California, based on findings in a national survey of 3,000 counties. Good health is always good news.
Bill Kortum’s county
All of Sonoma County owes its eternal gratitude to Bill Kortum for his five decades of open space preservation, environmental action and community leadership that shaped the land, coastline and our urban-rural land use patterns as we know them.