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Localvore
Full-disclosure: this cartoon actually appeared in the Argus-Courier. Not all the cartoons that I post on my blog do. The A-C covers local issues, not national ones. So, any cartoon that I post that...
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Trash of Our Fathers
When I graduated from UC Berkeley in 1970,the progressive firebrands of my generation bragged that they were going to remake the broken, polluted, and corrupt world left us by our parents. Now, 40...
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The Smell of Jobs
No. Not Steve Jobs. I meant employment, hopefully the steady kind. Petaluma's a vital, agricultural town so, from time to time, we are going to smell the perfume of compost, fertilizer, dirt, grain,...
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Predators Prey on Petaluma’s Seniors
As an official "senior," I can personally attest to at least a glancing awareness of this phenomenon. Recently, Colleen (who is not yet a senior) and I were looking for a home in Petaluma to rent and...
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Political Round-About
We’ve reached another year marked by the sense that we’re stuck in a rut. We can blame politicians, people with different political or religious beliefs, or Wall Street, but in truth we must heed the...
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Miss Petaluma Returns in the New Year
I guess rumors of my demise were exaggerated. I’ve been invited to appear in the Petaluma Chamber of Commerce monthly newsletter. Look for me in January’s edition. Until then, have a Merry Christmas...
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Young People Will Foot the Bill for Obamacare.
The Achilles heel of the “Affordable Health Care Act,” (written in haste, read by none before it was passed into law, and destined to be litigated for the foreseeable future) is the provision that...
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Rainier Connector Again in the News.
Thanks to an approval for an Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the widely desired (by 72% of Petalumans) and rabidly opposed (by nimby’s, “progressives,” and the rest of the anti-everything minority)...
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How Dry We Are…Again
Water, or the lack thereof, is once again in the news as it was back in the drought of ’06. Pity the mighty Petaluma River is actually a brackish tide slough.
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City Council Faces a Taxing Problem
River City is no different than anyplace else: nobody wants new taxes, but everybody wants more services. In some quarters more government is the answer, nay, the holy grail. Unfortunately, government...
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