2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (927+ words) David Hoffmann believes newspapers are vital to the health of a local community. He became chairman of the Lee Enterprises Board of Directors in February. Hello, I’m David Hoffmann. Like many of you, I’ve been thinking a lot about our…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (760+ words) A copy of the Mt. Veeder AVA sign now occupies a place of pride in the Courtney living room. Year after year Cheryl professes to want nothing for her birthday. Let’s just go out to dinner, she will say. These…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (967+ words) One of the simplest and most useful ideas a gardener can learn is that plants are not people. That sounds almost too obvious to say. Yet many of our assumptions about plants come directly from our understanding of our own…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (346+ words) This is really a letter to Mayor Paul Dohring. First, I want to thank him for his tactful ability to handle some potentially explosive situations like the water quality and cost, and to let a councilmember go for blatantly ignoring…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (429+ words) At every City Council meeting, the first agenda item should be the current status of our water infrastructure and what’s being done to resolve the issues. This isn’t an overstatement; the fact that this isn’t happening already is a tragedy....

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (669+ words) Visitors come traipsing here from every direction — friends from the city, relatives from out of state, people I have known for decades, people from the business side of my life, and casual acquaintances. We want visitors. Visitors make us pause…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (695+ words) Linda G. Brown is now co-founder and part-owner of Global Heat Reduction. As a child of the 1960s, Linda G. Brown dreamed of the space program and wanted to become an astronaut. Instead, Brown built a career working with another kind of science,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (16+ words) The Napa Valley Register...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1089+ words) About 15 years ago, while the editor of the Burbank Leader and Glendale News-Press, I found myself with a personal online troll. He ran a blog that opined about everything wrong with Burbank, its leaders and, most definitely, its newspaper. Nearly…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (723+ words) Open Letter to Eric Jones: When exactly did you become a resident of District 4, and how long was that before the deadline to be eligible to represent us? After living and working in San Francisco for over a decade, why…...