The Register has done it again. On the front page of the Sept. 28 edition, it has pushed illegal immigration as being necessary for the livelihood of the wine industry, it makes stealing IDs an acceptable practice, and honors management companies for skirting the law.

Jeremy Rifkin (a.k.a. "the most hated man in science" -- Scientific American, August 1997) is at it again with his Luddite views and latest pseudoscience book, "The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the World Wide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth." He advocates the hydrogen economy, which sounds great, yet currently the energy web he proposes is technically nonfeasible and to some physicists, it appears theoretically impossible. (Maybe we can violate some laws of physics?)

My wife and I grew up in the San Fernando Valley and recently returned for a short stay. The occasion was the wedding of our niece, one of three Korean girls adopted by my sister.

This is a response to Chris Craiker's commentary in the paper on Oct. 9 ("Mott understands Browns Valley issues") regarding emergency services response into Browns Valley.

American patience with the war in Iraq is wearing thin. It's no longer just liberal blue-staters fed up with the Bush administration's foreign policy, or Republican members of Congress annoyed at this albatross during campaign season. The administration itself seems to be growing impatient with the situation in Iraq -- especially the unwillingness or inability of the government in Baghdad to put an end to sectarian violence.

Dear editor,

Dear editor,I sent the following letter to the enforcement division of the Fair Political Practices Commission, and to the California Department of Veterans Affairs and the Allied Council California Veterans Home at Yountville:

Dear editor,

Dear editor,

Dear editor,

Dear editor,