Dear Editor, The governor’s budget does not propose to eliminate the Williamson Act, as the Register’s May 22 story implied (“Bad break for ag counties”), but instead calls upon local governments to do their part to preserve farmland.

Dear editor, The Register’s May 22 article, headlined “Bad break for ag counties,” correctly noted my opposition to Gov. Schwarzenegger’s proposal to cut nearly $40 million in state Williamson Act subvention funds for counties.

Dear editor, The creative juices were flowing over the weekend at Copia’s south parking lot as hundreds of people gathered together in support of Napa’s cutting-edge and multi-dimensional New Technology High School.