OPINION: There are simply locations where development is inappropriate if it places the environment, or property or lives at increased risk.
OPINION: Mr. Mott has identified a very serious issue that, if allowed to persist in our local politics, will continue to lead to unjust and unfair outcomes on our ag/land use issues as it did on Le Colline; an enormously dangerous possibility for a region whose lifeblood is agriculture.
OPINION: The new supervisor majority is indeed a wolf in sheep’s clothing looking to wreak havoc on what so many of those before them worked so hard to build.
OPINION: Seeing the pics of Napa High graduates toss their caps into the air earlier this week makes me wonder how many grads have done that for umpteen years.
OPINION: After reading Doris Gentry's letter regarding Donald Trump's trial and verdict, I have some questions:
OPINION: Taking Highway 29 to and from a gathering? Think before you drink.
OPINION: As the students walked to the podium to receive their certificates, two large screens made it easy to spot your student. At the end joyous students tossed their caps and the air was full of sparkles.
OPINION: Regardless of your ideology my fervent hope is you will meet the threat he represents and send him to the dustbin of history by the means that we have as citizens of the Republic: your vote.
OPINION: I just read the news that Warren Winiarski has passed. I have read many letters and articles all praising his role as winemaker and winery owner and his philanthropy.
OPINION: I would ask that we get back to a world of kindness, consideration, devotion to our children and respect to our earth.
OPINION: Until I see positive evidence that the City of Napa cares enough to make life better for its residents living in neighborhoods like ours, I'll leave the downtown experience to our local elites and our tourists.
OPINION: We encourage Napa County decision-makers to recommit to an evidence-based, predictable regulatory process for establishing vineyards and wineries.
OPINION: There is a very important and very unsettling contrast in what our Agriculture Secretary is saying and doing, trying to save small family farms and how Napa County is treating small family wineries.
OPINION: For the first time, three of our five Napa County supervisors voted to uphold regulations already in place but which, in the past, have been "mitigated" by a system in which the interests of certain factions of the wine industry have too often determined.
OPINION: So former police chief and now City Manager Steven Potter tells us public most supportive of increasing the sales tax here to ensure "basic services..."
OPINION: I am glad to see that Cal Fire and Napa Valley officials are taking steps to get ready for the upcoming fire season. (“Cal Fire and Napa Valley prepare for upcoming fire season”)
OPINION: So he is a convicted felon. I say don’t put him in jail. Let him be nominated, run for the presidency, and be elected.
OPINION: I’ve known Bob for 20 years and we often differed about environmental and energy conservation approaches, but I can never fault him for his persistence and dedication.
OPINION: The Napa County Republican Central Committee condemns this horrific decision in the New York courts and the 34 guilty counts. It is, and has fully been, a political attack.
OPINION: I want to thank the Napa City Council for putting the debate about a much needed childcare facility to rest.
OPINION: It's really not the politicians that are the problem. The real problem lies in the people who vote for them. Over and over and over again.
OPINION: “NIMBY” Not-In-My-Backyard, is habitually employed by developers and their supporters—including bureaucrats—to compartmentalize and denigrate citizen concern over developments believed to materially affect their environment, aesthetics, quality of life, health and safety and, usually, property values.
OPINION: I’m very concerned for the future of the Napa Valley wine industry.
OPINION: As a U.S. Army and Vietnam veteran, I am deeply troubled by the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
OPINION: Our Central Solano Citizen Taxpayer Group has been fighting the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District over Measure S from the beginning.
OPINION: Kayle Chavez and Justine Denwood, our young and talented City of Napa Climate Action Fellows, continue their Climate Action presentations at the Napa Senior Center.
OPINION: Our Planning Commission has clearly sweetened the deal for the development company — completely ignoring the already “under-parked” issue that already exists in the Oxbow neighborhood.
OPINION: I live on Dry Creek Road and am often profoundly introduced to an oncoming car or truck that is not in their lane.
OPINION: We are approaching a historic election which may or may not lead to an alteration of our system of government. So what do you really want in a president?
OPINION: World Affairs asked Jake Scheideman how he became interested in Nicaragua, which lies between Honduras and Costa Rica.