The American Cancer Society Relay for Life fundraiser event is this weekend.

While the boards of trustees of Napa Valley Unified School District and the Napa County Office of Education have sent resolutions to Washington suggesting changes to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, it is the powerful voice of parents and community members that Congress needs to hear.

California’s two-thirds vote for state budgets — it’s one of just three states with a supermajority requirement — provides minority Republicans with virtually their only opportunity to wield real power, and they often use it to pursue agendas that have little or nothing to do with the budget.

Dear editor, Recently, there was an article in the Register about an ABC TV news crew and a confrontation between that crew and two Napa County Sheriff’s deputies who refused to allow that crew to pass a roadblock requested by the Cal Fire Incident Commander (“ABC7 claims reporter, photographer detained by police at Atlas Peak fire,” July 12). It got nasty and tempers flared.

Dear editor, Hasn’t the Napa “Sox Scandal” gone far enough? We are supposed to be a democratic society. We still have certain rights — among those, what we choose to wear.

Dear editor, This is an open letter to Congressman Thompson. I challenge the congressman to respond in writing in the Napa Valley Register to these concerns.

Dear editor, Reduce water consumption and eat better, too.

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