As I quietly sit in my backyard, I watch the one lone tree that sits within it. I have no idea what type of tree it is and quite frankly, it does not matter. To me, all that matters is it is an exquisite thing of...
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Maya Spier Stiles North
Columnist, Copy Editor - July 29, 2018 in Columnists
I would commit suicide, but I don’t want to die
“Did you really want to die?” “No one commits suicide because they want to die.” “Then why do they do it?” “Because they want to stop the pain.” Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star Sometimes even to live is an act of courage....
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Stephen Cooper
Columnist - July 27, 2018 in Columnists
British waffling on death penalty will have global repercussions
For over half a century, abolitionists have wielded the United Kingdom’s conscientious, consistent, civilized opposition to capital punishment – in all cases and all circumstances – as a powerful argument to end the ignominious practice in their own countries and states, too. This may be...
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Donald Sanders
Columnist - July 27, 2018 in Columnists
Driving through to the end of a well loved life
“I want to find a airplane to charter and have the pilot take you and me way up high enough to see the curvature of the Earth.” That was one of the last things my friend, Joe Tomlinson, wanted to do before he got so...
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Amy Ferris
Blogger - July 25, 2018 in Bloggers
This is what I know — live your life full on
This is what I know. Maybe it’s that we don’t expect more, maybe it’s we get so tired of trying, maybe it’s that we can’t get up off the floor after falling down & getting up & falling down so many times, maybe it’s we’ve...
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Donald Sanders
Columnist - July 22, 2018 in Columnists
These “friends” are not on the side of Putah Creek
Here we go again! The so-called “Friends of Putah Creek” have taken legal action through the Solano County Superior Court, naming the Central Valley Flood Protection Board (CVFPB), the Solano County Water Agency, The City of Winters, and (correct me if I’m wrong) up to...
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David Lacy
Columnist and iPinion co-founder - July 4, 2018 in Uncategorized
The Not So Curious Case of Ocasio-Cortez
Go, go women! Until you threaten the democratic establishment that is. When Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) was asked about the astounding drubbing that 28 year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez handed to a 30-plus year veteran of New York democratic politics (Joseph Crowley), her response was not entirely...
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Julie Parker
Columnist - July 4, 2018 in Columnists
‘Tis of thee
In the 1957 film, “12 Angry Men,” Henry Fonda plays the lone dissenting juror on a panel which has overwhelmingly judged a Puerto Rican teenager guilty of murdering his father. In the jury room, he argues and cajoles with the men, forcing his fellow jurors...
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Maya Spier Stiles North
Columnist, Copy Editor - July 4, 2018 in Columnists
I will pledge no allegiance to Trump’s America
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one’s country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. George McGovern I confess I’ve never been middle America’s idea of a patriot. If it’s red, white and blue...
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