The Enemy of the People

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The Enemy of the People

With President Trump’s daily offenses and atrocities, it’s easy to feel more fatigue than outrage. But Trump’s relentless attacks on the press and his profound ignorance of the media’s role in a functioning democracy are one of the most pernicious aspects of his authoritarian reign.

Labeling journalists “enemies of the people,” dismissing any story critical of him as fake news and jeering at reporters at his febrile rallies—that’s the stuff of dictators and despots. And with a fawning Congress and enabling Supreme Court, that’s what he aspires to
be. He’s often expressed admiration for a host of thugs-in-chief (Vladimir Putin, Rodrigo Duterte, Kim Jong-un, Xi Jinping, Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi). The only remaining checks on his power are the press and the Nov. 7 election.

We the people only get the chance to do our duty as citizens on election day, but journalists, the kind who put facts before party and follow them wherever they lead, do their duty every day—or every week as the case may be. But just as hate crimes have spiked under this president, so have Trump’s attacks on the press. It seems only a matter of time before some MAGA goon beats up a reporter. Oh, wait. That already happened. (See Corey Lewandowski and Greg Gianforte). It’s a deeply troubling state of affairs when the real enemy of the people is the man sitting in the Oval Office.

Whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, libertarian or socialist, Trump’s denigration of the press should strike you as an attack on America and its ideals, namely freedom of the press. There are not many professions whose duty and privilege is enshrined in the First Amendment. It’s first for a reason. A free press is critical to maintenance of a democracy. The reporters I know see that as a solemn duty. They’re sure not in it for the money.

As one of the remaining, independently owned alternative weekly papers in America, we will continue to defend and exercise our constitutional rights, afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted along the way.

Whether you’re a fan of this paper or some other, keep reading and stand up for objective truth. It shall set us free.

Stett Holbrook is the editor of the ‘Bohemian’ and the ‘Pacific Sun.’

Open Mic is a weekly feature in the ‘Bohemian.’ We welcome your contribution. To have your topical essay of 350 words considered for publication, write op*****@******an.com.

Letters to the Editor: August 15, 2018

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Letters to the Editor: August 15, 2018

White Unconsciousness

Thank you, Harry Duke, for calling out the lack of diversity in the artists performing for Transcendence (“Let’s Dance,” Aug. 8). I’ve been sitting on the fence as to whether to buy a ticket for their productions, hesitating not only because of the pricing, but also it’s a hike for me from Guerneville.

It’s so important that we here in a very white Sonoma County (I am sure the audience reflected the dancers) do everything we can to create an inclusive environment in our various communities. White privilege is less the problem than white unconsciousness, the lack of recognition that we as a group hold the power of dominance. In this age of whites outrageously calling out people of color for invading their spaces, we can model the opposite with welcoming and celebrating any diversity we have. Duke’s comments register objection to perpetuating status quo and inappropriate casting of artists of color with white performers. Thank you, Bohemian. Let’s see more of this.

—Laurie Lippin

Guerneville

Meat of
the Matter

With scorching heat and raging wildfires in the West and torrential downpours and massive flooding in the East, global warming is not just about a gentle sea rise any more. These tragic consequences of dumping greenhouse gases into our atmosphere call for drastic remedies.

For starters, we should rejoin the Paris Agreement and actually become a world leader in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. One of the most effective ways is by changing our diet.

Yes, that. Last Fall, Oxford University’s prestigious Food Climate Research Network concluded that solving the global warming catastrophe requires massive shift to a plant-based diet. Carbon dioxide is emitted by burning forests to create animal pastures and by transporting animals. The more damaging methane and nitrous oxide are released from digestive tracts of cattle and from animal waste cesspools, respectively. In an environmentally sustainable world, we must replace meat and dairy products in our diet with vegetables, fruits and grains, just as we replace fossil fuels by wind, solar and other pollution-free energy sources.

—Steven Alderson

Santa Rosa

Defend Chanate

Thank you for the in-depth article on the Chanate property (“The Fate of Chanate,” July 25). I am sickened to see voracious developers manipulating the system to build more homes for the wealthy. I’ll bet there are some significant kickbacks if the developers get the property at one-one hundredth of its value. Jeremy Nichols and Carol Vellutini need our support. Eighty-two acres could support lots of dense low-income housing and parks. Please have follow-up articles outlining how concerned citizens can support Jeremy and Carol.

—Chance Massaro

Santa Rosa

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High Hats

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High Hats

Cannabis industry workers, farmers and users donned green shirts and hats while red-laden members of the “Save Our Sonoma County Neighbors” group filled the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors chambers as the board voted on seven controversial amendments to the county’s cannabis laws on Aug. 7.

The amendments address zoning and land-use concerns and attempt to mitigate conflict between growers who face regulatory uncertainty and high fees, and citizens opposing the operation of cannabis farms near their residences.

In the interest of helping growers get their businesses going—many of whom have made substantial investments despite ambiguous policies—the board voted to extend the permit period from one year to two or five years, depending on the type of permit.

“It’s a long and expensive process,” said Supervisor Shirlee Zane. “They should be given an extended term because we have enforcement. Let’s give them the carrot.”

Initial fees for cannabis cultivation permits range from $12,000 to $16,000, though that cost can go well above $100,000, as applicants must pay for a variety of investigations and reports, such as environmental and water use, and reimburse the county for any services rendered.

Zane also pointed out the generational differences between the two camps and praised the cannabis industry’s aura of inclusivity and opportunity, especially for young people.

The board also voted to restrict cultivation permits to parcels of land with at least 10 acres and to enact exclusion zones where cannabis cannot be grown—based on objective criteria that’s yet to be determined.

Conditional use permits, which are discretionary and provide flexibility amid broad regulations, may play a role in allowing ad hoc exceptions to regulations, if, for instance, a nine-acre property exists in an area where cannabis cultivation is appropriate.

Dozens of community members submitted requests to speak during the public comments section, and board president James Gore progressively reduced allotted speaking time from three minutes to one as the clock neared 8pm.

Those in the “neighbor” camp cited the offensive odors, the lack of penalties and the perceived threats to safety. The county has received 664 cannabis-related complaints since recreational use became legal on Jan. 1, 2017.

Bennett Valley resident Craig Harrison criticized the county for encouraging criminal activity and for its penalty-relief program, which granted amnesty to non-compliant grow operations.

Bill Frank, sporting a red hat, told the board that his neighborhood and the Adobe Christian Church near Petaluma were affected by the odor of a cannabis grow 1,110 feet away, and that the 300-foot odor mitigation ordinance was ineffective.

“The odor is a severe issue. You can smell it at the church, at the preschool, at the Adobe Elementary School and kind of over where our house is. We’re about 700 feet away, and it’s very offensive, so 300 feet is nothing.”

Shivawn Brady, 32, of the Bennett Valley Community Association, said some community members were using the cannabis program as a scapegoat and objected to the neighbors’ perceptions of growers as criminals.

“A lot of their concerns are coming from [a] drug war mentality and concerns of how this crop has been managed in the past under the umbrella of the black market—so it’s hard to address a lot of their concerns now because the ordinance is written specifically to address that,” Brady said. “There are so many requirements that hit those concerns that we’re not really sure how to respond. I don’t want to dismiss their concerns, but we’ve heard them for years now, which is why we’ve crafted one of the most conservative cannabis ordinances in the state.”

Song & Dance

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Song & Dance

‘A lot of people don’t know, but the Bay Area has quite an extensive following of flamenco,” says veteran performer and educator Andrea La Canela. “In the United States, it’s one of the centers where a lot of guitarists and dancers and singers are. We’re really lucky that way.”

Raised in Santa Cruz with a background in ballet and modern dance, La Canela began studying flamenco more than 30 years ago. Now based in Marin, she regularly performs and teaches classes locally, though her flamenco career has taken her across the globe, including a two-year sailing journey to Spain in 2006.

“We took off for Spain and performed wherever we went,” says La Canela, who embarked on the trip with her musical partner at the time. The pair sailed down to Mexico and Costa Rica, crossed over to the Atlantic and made their way back up the eastern seaboard to New York, then shot across the Atlantic Ocean on a 19-day sail before seeing land again. Eventually, they settled in Rota, Spain, and immersed themselves in flamenco culture for over a year.

“Music is a wonderful way to travel,” La Canela says. “Everybody relates to music, if you don’t speak the same language.”

Describing the music of flamenco as both haunting and beautiful, La Canela brought her passion and lifetime of experiences with her when she returned to the Bay Area in 2008.

“Flamenco is very ancient, and it deals with all the emotional scale that a human being has. It’s the blues of Spain,” she says. “You don’t need a stage to do flamenco. This is a lifestyle, and you can do it in the living room. It’s so accessible.”

In addition to performing at parties and wineries throughout the North Bay, La Canela hosts a regular flamenco show at the Sausalito Seahorse on the third Thursday of the month, and teaches dance classes at venues like Marin Ballet in San Rafael and Knights of Columbus Hall in San Anselmo, on her own and through Marin County’s Parks and Recreation department. Her next session of kids classes begins
Sept. 19.

“The teaching has really started to take off,” she says. “Right now, I’m teaching Sevillana, a folk dance that has all the elements of flamenco in it. You can’t get past junior high school in Spain without dancing Sevillana. It’s a great beginner dance.”

Listen to Riesling

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Listen to Riesling

The last time I ran into Brian Maloney, director of winemaking for Boisset Collection’s DeLoach Vineyards and Buena Vista Winery, it was at a super-exciting event.

We were standing, as Maloney informed me, in the former residence of wine legend Robert Mondavi, at the top of Wappo Hill with a bird’s eye view of Napa Valley, while current resident Jean-Charles Boisset was showing guests the stuffed tiger in a corner of this mega-California ranch-house-turned-eclectic-ultra-lounge, prior to the debut of J’Noon, the first “luxury” Indian wine launched in the United States in partnership with Boisset.

But when we got to talking, what Maloney was excited to tell me about was a trivial amount of Riesling he is making from an obscure Marin County vineyard. Riesling gets a lot of respect among winemakers. Shouldn’t wine drinkers take notice?

Recently, I asked Bohemians to tell me what they thought of a few examples of this varietal, from high and low in the North Bay.

Chateau Montelena 2017 Potter Valley Riesling ($27) Montelena gained fame for Chardonnay, of course, but its Riesling has been an insider’s favorite for decades. Winemaker Matt Crafton, in the winery’s notes, says, “I love sharing our Riesling when I travel.” Typically, Crafton says, tasters beg off because they say they don’t drink sweet wine. But this wine isn’t sweet—in fact it’s hardly off-dry, with juicy acidity, a leesy note buffering sweet honeysuckle and apricot aromas, then nectarine fruit flavor sings across the palate. ★★★★½

Imagery 2016 Pine Mountain-Cloverdale Peak Riesling ($26) Imagine a vape flavor called “Rhineland,” kids, and you’ll get an idea of the classic notes of lime rind, honeycomb and white raspberry this Riesling displays in a subtle, ethereal way. Yet it’s got juicy presence on the palate. This is grown at high elevation. ★★★★

Trefethen 2017 Oak Knoll District of Napa Valley Dry Riesling ($26) Another early hero of Napa Chardonnay that dares not mess with its Riesling program. In fact, Trefethen has it dialed in quite well year to year, although this pale platinum gold wine feels more dialed-back than previous vintages. The honey and lime aromas are muted, as if in a powdered sugar-coated confection and tasted on one of those forever foggy August days we used to have. ★★★★

DeLoach 2017 Petaluma Gap Marin County Riesling ($30) This wine, softer than the others, has cool-climate, malic-influenced aromas of apple and pear cider, spiced with a pinch of cinnamon. Still, it’s not like some kind of appletini-esque “unoaked” Chardonnay—on the finish, it shows class. It’s Riesling. ★★★

Life Cycles

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Life Cycles

Relationships are front and center in two very different shows now running on North Bay stages through Aug. 19.

The Cloverdale Performing Arts Center is presenting Heroes, playwright Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of a 2003 French play about three World War I vets in a retirement home. Gustave (Robert Bauer), Henri (Peter Immordino) and Philippe (Dale Harriman) pass their days sitting on a terrace, annoying each other and plotting their escape from the veterans home. Convinced that the tyrannical nun in charge has it out for Philippe, their latest plan starts out with the goal of running to French Indo-China but ends on settling for a poplar grove within view of their terrace. Now if they can just figure a way to take a 200-pound statue of a dog with them . . .

An odd combination of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Waiting for Godot and The Golden Girls (with Gustave as Dorothy, Henri as Blanche and Philippe as Rose), Heroes is a slight piece with some amusing dialogue and geriatric slapstick.

Rating (out of 5): ★★★

Healdsburg’s Raven Players have converted the cavernous Raven Theatre into an intimate black box performance space, and are presenting an updated version of 1996’s I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. The Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts musical revue holds the record as the second-longest running Off-Broadway show.

The play consists of a series of comedic vignettes that follow the arc of human relationships from dating, sex and marriage through children and aging. Four versatile performers (Bohn Connor, Kelly Considine, Troy Evans and Tika Moon) sing and dance their way through 18 scenes with songs like “Better Things to Do,” “Single Man Drought” and “I Can Live with That.” Recent revisions include 21st-century additions like sexting (“A Picture of His . . .”) and same-sex families (“The Baby Song”).

It’s a very entertaining show, helped immensely by the talented cast. All do well by the multiple roles they play, but the rubber-faced Connor really makes an impression with characters ranging from an incarcerated mass murderer giving dating tips to a hapless husband trying to put the kids to bed so he and the missus can get it on. ★★★★

Starch Search

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Starch Search

Stop the presses and hold the wheat—there’s a new bakery in Petaluma. And it’s a dedicated gluten-free, community-supported bakery (CSB).

Mama Mel’s, the fruit of a seven-years-long labor, “all started with a baguette pan,” says founder Melissa Wenzel.

Wenzel always suspected she was gluten-intolerant, and baked quick breads for personal consumption for years—but it was the pan that inspired her to make artisan bread without wheat.

Wenzel has a background in art and naturopathic medicine, and unsurprisingly approaches her gluten-free baking as both an art and science. She insists she’s still perfecting her product, and came by her recipes through extensive research on different gluten-free flours and blends—”and a lot of trial and error,” she says.

Wenzel has tried various combinations of sorghum, brown rice, millet, tapioca, potato and flax seed flours, and angles for veganity in as many breads as possible by not adding eggs or milk.

Store-bought gluten-free bread often lacks structural integrity or flavor, but Wenzel demonstrates that gluten-free bread and bagels don’t have to be like that. Mama Mel’s bread is delicious—it rivals any and all glutenous counter-loaves.

How does she do it?

“I treat it like regular bread,” says Wenzell. She doesn’t knead the dough, given the absence of gluten in it, but says the consistency changes after being handled. All Wenzel’s bread is then cold-fermented for at least 24 hours, which breaks down some of the starches and helps give the bread its remarkable consistency.

As Wenzel honed her talent for baking, friends clamored for her lovely loaves and asked to be on her “bread list.” About a year ago, she opened this service up to the public and now operates Mama Mel’s much like a CSA (community supported agriculture): customers sign up to receive the bread bimonthly or monthly, and pick it up at one of the local cafes that carry her products.

Community supported bakeries rely on sustained community support, and in order to flourish, embrace direct relationships between purveyors and consumers. Wenzel says the model works well since she is able to butter people up with her bread without a corporate investor—as long as her customers remember to pick up their orders. “It’s rustic, and in that way, simple,” she says, citing the ease and informality of the CSB business model.

Though Mama Mel’s, which consists of Wenzel, her husband and one employee, takes between 75 and 100 individual orders per month, Wenzel dreams of running a breadmobile—a bakery-like food truck—or opening a brick-and-mortar storefront. For now, she remains hard at work finalizing her flour mixes, and aims to teach others how to go gluten-free.

“I would love to be the neighborhood gluten-free baker.”

Mama Mel’s bread and bagels (and, hopefully soon, the croissant recipe Wenzel’s working on) are available at Retrograde Coffee in Sebastopol, Brew Coffee & Beer House in Santa Rosa and, in Petaluma, Sarah’s Eats & Sweets, Bump City Bakery and the Petaluma Farmers Market.

Scenes from the 2018 NorBay Music Award Winners Party

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Scenes from the 2018 NorBay Music Award Winners Party

A couple weeks ago, over twenty North Bay musicians, promoters, venue owners and other musical luminaries came together for the Bohemian’s 2018 NorBay Music Award Winners Party at Beer Baron in downtown Santa Rosa. Scroll through the slideshow to see the fun. All photos were taken by Candace Simmons and Tony Perrot of FourReels Studios LLC.

Letters to the Editor: August 8, 2018

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Letters to the Editor: August 8, 2018

Palms Inn
a Success

Yes, there are more sheriff calls to this property than your usual apartment complex (“Calls for Help,” July 31), but have you considered that the Palms Inn is actually saving the taxpayers money by getting people off the streets and thus cutting down on utilization of ambulance, emergency room, overnight hospitalization, and sheriff responses?

A main purpose of the “housing first” model is to put a roof over the head of the most vulnerable homeless who are costing the city hundreds of thousands in emergency service utilization in order to cut back on these costs. Not to mention all of the moral reasons, which should be reason enough to intervene.

The Palms ultimately benefits law enforcement by cutting down on utilization. I would be interested in the statistics about sheriff responses in Santa Rosa since the Palms inception, and utilization of services among Palms residents previous to moving in versus six months or a year in.

And yes, on-site mental health services would be fantastic and I fully support that, but there are on-site case managers through Catholic Charities and the VA, it is not a free-for-all. These residents have a level of support and access to services.

Sorry if this seems defensive I just feel like this is textbook cherry-picking of the data, and contains some language that is commonly used to disparage the efforts of combating homelessness, at least in the first half. This site is portrayed as some huge inconvenience to law enforcement.

I believe in this project and am willing to put my money where my mouth is.

—Mitchell Reber

Santa Rosa

Poignant Punks

I really appreciate the amount of research that went into this article “Mosh Split,” July 31). I felt like I was in Santa Rosa and feeling the crisis. Nice piece glad I read it! I really hope they continue to push music and arts into the community. It’s not easy rebuild people’s spirits after a fire.

—Debra Slonin

Via Bohemian.com

CDs for Me

I’ve been an audiophile for 43 years. I have over 700 CDs that I’m ripping for my favorite songs only, and am looking to expand my collection. So imagine my horror when I found out that about the only music store left with a decent collection of CDs for sale is The Last Record Store (“A Positive Spin,” Aug. 1). I have driven all over Sonoma and Marin counties, and am finding that everyone else is going the LP route and dropping CDs. I say horror not because I have anything against the resurgence of LPs, but having been a major collector of LPs up until 33 years ago, there a lot of downsides to them that perhaps many have not thought through. On the short list, they are bulky and take up a lot of room, they melt, they scratch and they can’t be played on your car system. The new sales pitch is that they sound better then CDs, but that depends on the recording. But what finally turned me off of LPs in the mid-80s was problems getting even newly pressed LPs that were not defective. I remember in 1985 I returned Boz Scaggs’s first album nine times for scratches or skips. It was at that point that I said “never more.” I went CD, and I’m not going back. Good luck to the rest of you with your LPs.

—Karin

Via Bohemian.com

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The Threat Within

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The Threat Within

While we’re often distracted by allegations of Russian efforts to influence our elections, we’re ignoring a much more important danger: the U.S. Supreme Court’s homegrown threat to our right to vote and have confidence in the accuracy of our elections.

A Supreme Court ruling in 2013 facilitated voter suppression. The Shelby v. Holder decision gutted the Voting Rights Act, and rolled back voting rights protections in states that had histories of discrimination in access to voting. Those effects made a huge difference in the 2016 presidential election.

According to a recent study published by the Brennan Center for Justice, the effects of the 2013 ruling included increased voter ID requirements at polling places, redistricting without regard for racial makeup of the districts, disenfranchising minority voters and voter roll “purging,” i.e., removing voters for dubious reasons. The result was that after 2013, two million eligible voters were purged from voting rolls.

In 2016, some elections officials further suppressed the vote by reducing the number of available polling places, making it more inconvenient for people to vote, printing an insufficient number of ballots, forcing voters to mark provisional ballots which have a higher chance of being rejected than regular ballots and allowing malfunctioning voting machines to “lose” votes.

At the same time, the Supreme Court has allowed unlimited corporate money in politics. Three years before gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling erased the prohibition on dark money in politics. Their specious reasoning was that the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting political campaign spending by corporations. The result has been a deluge of corporate and dark money support for business-as-usual candidates.

Who interfered more in elections: Russia or the Supreme Court? It’s easier to blame Facebook postings by alleged Russian operatives than to reverse Supreme Court rulings, but that’s what we’re going to have to do if we want to get our elections back.

Alice Chan is an elections integrity activist and delegate to the California Democratic Central Committee.

Open Mic is a weekly feature in the ‘Bohemian.’ We welcome your contribution. To have your topical essay of 350 words considered for publication, write op*****@******an.com.

The Enemy of the People

With President Trump's daily offenses and atrocities, it's easy to feel more fatigue than outrage. But Trump's relentless attacks on the press and his profound ignorance of the media's role in a functioning democracy are one of the most pernicious aspects of his authoritarian reign. Labeling journalists "enemies of the people," dismissing any story critical of him as fake news...
Read more

Letters to the Editor: August 15, 2018

White Unconsciousness Thank you, Harry Duke, for calling out the lack of diversity in the artists performing for Transcendence ("Let's Dance," Aug. 8). I've been sitting on the fence as to whether to buy a ticket for their productions, hesitating not only because of the pricing, but also it's a hike for me from Guerneville. It's so important that we here...
Read more

High Hats

Cannabis industry workers, farmers and users donned green shirts and hats while red-laden members of the "Save Our Sonoma County Neighbors" group filled the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors chambers as the board voted on seven controversial amendments to the county's cannabis laws on Aug. 7. The amendments address zoning and land-use concerns and attempt to mitigate conflict between growers...
Read more

Song & Dance

'A lot of people don't know, but the Bay Area has quite an extensive following of flamenco," says veteran performer and educator Andrea La Canela. "In the United States, it's one of the centers where a lot of guitarists and dancers and singers are. We're really lucky that way." Raised in Santa Cruz with a background in ballet and modern...
Read more

Listen to Riesling

The last time I ran into Brian Maloney, director of winemaking for Boisset Collection's DeLoach Vineyards and Buena Vista Winery, it was at a super-exciting event. We were standing, as Maloney informed me, in the former residence of wine legend Robert Mondavi, at the top of Wappo Hill with a bird's eye view of Napa Valley, while current resident Jean-Charles...
Read more

Life Cycles

Relationships are front and center in two very different shows now running on North Bay stages through Aug. 19. The Cloverdale Performing Arts Center is presenting Heroes, playwright Tom Stoppard's adaptation of a 2003 French play about three World War I vets in a retirement home. Gustave (Robert Bauer), Henri (Peter Immordino) and Philippe (Dale Harriman) pass their days sitting...
Read more

Starch Search

Stop the presses and hold the wheat—there's a new bakery in Petaluma. And it's a dedicated gluten-free, community-supported bakery (CSB). Mama Mel's, the fruit of a seven-years-long labor, "all started with a baguette pan," says founder Melissa Wenzel. Wenzel always suspected she was gluten-intolerant, and baked quick breads for personal consumption for years—but it was the pan that inspired her to...
Read more

Scenes from the 2018 NorBay Music Award Winners Party

See the winners and the action from the party in a slideshow.
Read more

Letters to the Editor: August 8, 2018

Palms Inn a Success Yes, there are more sheriff calls to this property than your usual apartment complex ("Calls for Help," July 31), but have you considered that the Palms Inn is actually saving the taxpayers money by getting people off the streets and thus cutting down on utilization of ambulance, emergency room, overnight hospitalization, and sheriff responses? A main purpose...
Read more

The Threat Within

While we're often distracted by allegations of Russian efforts to influence our elections, we're ignoring a much more important danger: the U.S. Supreme Court's homegrown threat to our right to vote and have confidence in the accuracy of our elections. A Supreme Court ruling in 2013 facilitated voter suppression. The Shelby v. Holder decision gutted the Voting Rights Act, and...
Read more
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