You don’t have to be an anti-Trump partisan or Trump critic to deem the speech he delivered to 40,000 Boy Scouts at the national jamboree in West Virginia this past Monday night a horrible mess. Putting Donald Trump in front of children is like setting...
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Every week, I read in our local newspaper, the Winters Express, about how unhappy some people are with the restoration work on Putah Creek. It’s always the same group of people that do everything they can to prevent the completion of the Putah Creek Restoration...
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Some weeks in a small town are harder than others. This was one of those weeks. Winters lost two of its icons, only three days apart — and on the heels of another last month. They say bad luck comes in threes. Note to Universe:...
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It's a pretty cozy arrangement. The medical and insurance industries openly collude to boost each other's massive profits, and Congress cements that unholy alliance by forcing Americans to purchase insurance to fund it. Extortion!
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Of course I'm talking about Wells Fargo Bank and the 5,300 employees that got fired for committing fraud upon the unsuspecting public. Well, it's business as usual for Wells Fargo, and no one was arrested and no one went to jail. They were fined $185 million but they profited up to $5.6 billion in just the second quarter of this year.
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Years ago, after a white-shirt-and-tie visit to Phantom of the Opera in San Francisco, we stopped in at the Redwood Room to have a drink. In honor of Herb Caen, the famous columnist of the Chron, I had a double Stoli on the rocks. The...
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