Futile as it might seem to some, protesting the new Rohnert Park casino offered the local residents - and the rest of us who feel that a adding a couple of thousand more slot machines to the county will damage our quality of life - some faint hope of influencing [...]
To their credit, local citizens took seriously last summer's pleas to conserve water. In fact, they took requests to cut back their water use so seriously that the County water agencies' revenues plummeted as a result. To reward us all for our frugality an our concern for the ecology - [...]
You'd think that a town whose roads need re-paving as badly as the roads in Petaluma do would welcome a handy source of asphalt. But of course you would be guilty of using logic, the anathema of all those who pursue utopian ideals at all costs. The utopian ideal in [...]
It's hard to be a Republican in California. It's not that the GOP doesn't stand for worthy principles, it's that the California version is like some bizarre parody the GOP. If state's Democrats fabricated a straw dog imitation of Republicans, which they could set up to be easily mocked, they [...]
La Prima Diva - self-anointed star of the on-going soap opera that is the Petaluma City Council expressed her displeasure with our incoming City Manager recently. Not very stateswoman-like behavior indeed. Especially when you consider that they'll need to work together to solve Petaluma's host of challenges. However, since it's [...]
So it seems that birds are more popular in some branches of Miss Petaluma's extended family than cats...such that Shollenberger Park has become a bird sanctuary in the minds of many avian afficianados.Woe then to the resident "colonies" of feral cats who view the bird population as source of food. [...]
lGood news / bad news - the trestle adjacent to the Applebox is discomposing faster than cotton candy in the rain. Good news because its advancing decrepitude may prompt the dithering officials responsible for it's fate do more than just put up a decorative railing to discourage sightseers from hurting [...]
It's an overused cliche' about how easy our kids have it easy compared to past generations. However, with the freezing conditions at Kenilworth Junior High, those kids will have some harrowing stories to tell their own kids when they grow up. Imagine: "Gee dad, tell us the story about how [...]
It seems that Miss Petaluma can't choose a new City Manager from the (candi)dates she's met so far. Or, perhaps, Moynihan's harebrained measure to roll back sewer taxes, an idea that should have never made it off his cocktail napkin let alone appear on the ballot, has raised the prospect [...]
Pot belly pigs, a house full of cats, more rats than the Pied Piper whistled out of Hamelin, zombie chickens, ugly dogs, wandering seals, pet alligators and cockroaches galore. Petaluma may be some kind of progressive ark for weird species. We already know Petaluma is a weird ark for progressive [...]