I guess even a sweet town like Petaluma has to have it's share of drunks and rowdies. Thank goodness for the diligence and professionalism of our local constabulary.

If you're looking for some good news, you might consider that we've been recently told the recession officially started late last year. I call this "good news" because recessions generally last about two years. If true of this recession it means it's already about half over. I guess that makes [...]

Personally, I thought the ads for Prop 2 were rank propaganda. The examples in the TV spots were never identified as having occurred a) recently, b) in California or c) the US. Yet voters obviously took them at face value without apparently needing any further evidence that California farmers and [...]

I can think of few examples that better demonstrate the rule that children shouldn't play with fire than the recent Measure K fiasco. An intelligent politician knows than to float a trial balloon made of lead, lest credulous folk (e.g., the people who think Michael Moore makes serious documentaries and [...]

A probe from India's Lunar orbiter, Chadrayaan-1, crashed on the moon Saturday with the stated goal of mapping the Lunar terrain. Hmmm. Since the root for "terrain" is "terra" or Earth, perhaps the word should be lunarrain? Nonetheless, I'm unsure as to the value or use for a moon map. [...]

Despite overwhelming public support for creating some kind of Rainier Interchange, at least one newly elected City Council member has stated that implementing this much-needed connection between Petaluma's east- and west-sides is not "a priority." Of course, given the state of the City's budget, one could argue that we no [...]

Partisan bickering, cheap shots, rank propaganda, rampant wishful thinking...the recent Presidential election was local politics on a national scale. I'm delighted that Obama won, not because I think he's the better man - no one knows who he really is - but because I'm pretty sure that he's not the [...]

Thanks to the prevailing sense of dread permeating our media that is associated with all things financial , this Halloween is more than usually spooky. Of course the real "trick or treat" day comes next Tuesday. I shutter to think of the repercussions whichever candidate takes the prize. Either way [...]

I'll freely admit that before Chris asked me to do this cartoon I'd not heard of "Skittle Parties." I asked Colleen if she had heard of them, and she said no. Nor had our three kids - currently at the JC, in high school and Junior High. Since children, whether [...]

Thanks to the budget crunch, our City is losing some senior civil servants. They leave with not just years of service behind them, but with a wealth of knowledge and experience that will be sorely missed. I'm guessing not of all them wanted to retire at this exact moment in [...]