I found the comments by Robert Pastor in the Dec. 1 guest commentary, “Making a competitive continent,” to be most interesting.

Will the umpteenth time be the charm for reforming California’s unseemly process of redrawing legislative and congressional districts?

Dear editor, Thank you! This is a personal statement of gratitude and wonderment from the Veterans Home of California at Yountville.

Dear editor, This is the time of the year when we should reflect and give thanks and praise to the people around us.

Dear editor, I read with interest the letter from Melanie Nevin on Dec. 5 (“Nursing tests and low standards”) regarding nursing tests.

Dear editor, I wanted to extend a huge thank you to Dan Young of State Wide Roofing, who has just completed his second term as the President of the NVU Education Foundation Board.

Dear editor, The first time I saw the word “apartheid,” I pronounced it “appar-thide.”