3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (508+ words) The folly of building in high-risk areas While Santa Rosa clearly needs more affordable housing, a basic urban planning premise is that new housing be directed to inner city areas, near public transit and other services — not to outlying areas…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (630+ words) In two months California voters will elect a governor, fill several other statewide offices and choose a new class of state legislators and members of Congress. The aspirants for those positions are making all sorts of promises to win voters…...

1+ day, 27+ min ago   (1269+ words) A controversial Sonoma County government proposal to purchase a premium office building near the county airport will return to the Board of Supervisors this week, but this time with a lower price tag. On Tuesday, the board is poised to…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (728+ words) “I don’t really like the way he looks,” Trump told the laughing crowd in Paxton’s home state of Texas. But never mind that because “he was our greatest attorney general and he deserves to go to the United States Senate....

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (617+ words) On Thursday, the final night of Republicans’ unusual midterm convention, Trump said he would speak for just a few minutes. Instead he held court for a half hour, repeating many of the points he made in a nearly two-hour speech…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (950+ words) A Sonoma County jury on Friday, Sept. 11, found former Windsor Mayor Domonic Foppoli liable for sexual assault claims going back to 2001. Seven women sued Foppoli in civil court in 2022, about a year after allegations against him surfaced. The trial in…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (306+ words) After a nearly two-hour discussion at its meeting on Thursday, Sept. 10, the Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees did not take a vote on establishing a revised flag policy for district schools and instead requested staff… After a…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (843+ words) Sonoma County is set to spend nearly $3.4 million this budget year and add more than 21 probation, jail, health and counseling positions to deal with the shift of some criminals and state parolees to county supervision. The numbers are part of…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (477+ words) Editor: Please stop referring to oil extraction as oil production. Oil production took immense geological forces acting on vast tracts of decomposed plants and animals over millions of years. Oil companies don’t produce oil any more than obstetricians produce babies....

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (973+ words) Shelina Moreda’s recent political candidacies have been the subject of mild controversy. Now, amid her bid for Petaluma mayor, it has come to light that a former boyfriend obtained last year a restraining order against Moreda, alleging she stalked him,…...