2010 Graduates: Welcome to the Future
It's that time of year when bright-eyed kids say goodbye to their old school and look ahead, often with a mixture of excitement and anxiety, at their future. Countless valedictory speeches will speculate on the myriad of challenges and opportunities that the graduating seniors will encounter. However, one thing will be true for them as was for you and me...the future probably won't work out exactly as they plan. With any luck, and with God's blessing, it will be better.
Election Year Budget Bushwah
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No matter whether it's Washington, D.C., California or Petaluma, politicians willingly ignore simple arithmetic, cast fiscal prudence to the wind, and put future generations in hock, in order to curry favor with this or that interest group in hopes of hanging on to a job that they're clearly not fit to do.
How Will Your Kids Spend the Summer?
Grandma used to say that the idle brain was the devil's playground. When the principle is applied to the two-month hiatus in the school year, even secular humanists can agree that kids left with nothing to do and no direction don't flourish. Fortunately, our fair city offers lots of productive diversions for Generation "Why?" When it comes to kids, dirty, sweaty and tired beats bored, fat and sullen any day.
Chicken Little Was Right
The consequences of the PETA-inspired Prop 2 will soon come crashing down on local poultry farmers. Prepare yourselves for a egg to cost as much as a latte. This is what happens when the oh-so-well-intentioned people in government who do no actual work for a living conspire to tell those who actually do work, how to do their jobs.
Miss Petaluma Thanks BE Days Sponsors
We love our parades. The Butter & Egg Days Parade, in particular, is a great way to pass along Petaluma's rural heritage to those (like me) who arrived long after River Town ceased being an agricultural hub. For those multi-generational families who's ancestors arrived to work the land, it's a way to remember the town where they grew up and where they raised children who went on to become doctors, lawyers and Internet gurus. Parades, after all, are a fixture of American small town life and Petaluma relishes being an American small town.