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Columnists for Monday, January 21, 2008
To be a successful entrepreneur we need to be well-organized in order to maximize every minute of the day. Great organizational skills don’t necessarily mean having a clean desk, it means managing your time and resources. Managing your time is about leveraging and budgeting your most precious resource … you.
I'm deeply disturbed by the many stories of elder abuse cases we read about all over our country.
OK, before I get started here, did anyone lose a cat? Black with white paws, very friendly, very hungry, very cocky?
For the presidential candidates, it is too early to talk about vice presidents, but not too early to think about them.
The housing industry, both construction and sales, provided the engine for robust economic growth that lasted more than five consecutive years. Clearly, it is the decline of that same housing industry that is leading the economic course towards recession.
With the holiday season now just a warm memory and a Pacific rain and wind storm rattling our windows and sweeping the cul-de-sac with sheets of cold rain, what better time to recapture some precious moments that will never come again?
Today marks the observation of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A day that honors the memory of the late civil rights champion and recipient of a Nobel Prize for peace.
New fishing regulations for '08
There are several new regulatory and legislative changes that affect sport fishing license requirements for 2008.
Thanks to a new science called “neuroeconomics,” we learn that the more wine costs, the better it tastes. Or at least some people think so.
My home is being overrun by ants, despite two visits from pest control experts who have sprayed outside the home. Do ants come in to escape bad weather? Are ant invasions seasonal? Is there a method to their madness?
As someone who does not venture out with his wallet much, I am mostly oblivious to new stores and eateries.
Sonoma wines get high marks at Copia tasting
While Napa Valley is lauded as America’s premier winegrowing region, the grapes grown by our Sonoma neighbors are nothing to sneeze at.
So how is your organizing coming along? I hope you are doing well and getting things accomplished.
Garden festival coming to Napa
Ah, the cold and rainy days of January. Might as well curl up with a good book; there’s nothing you can do in the garden. Or perhaps you’re looking longingly through the pages of all those seed catalogs that have been arriving over the past few weeks.
Bill Clinton's visit shows Napa's political clout
In the first Newspeak, I suggested that Napa Valley has growing political clout. President Clinton’s visit Wednesday did nothing to put me off that theory. Attendees at the Opera House agreed that “This is new for Napa," and Mr. Clinton’s rationale for coming here was: “We want to win Northern California, and I like it here.”
Dear Len & Rosie, My mother passed away January 2007 at the age of 91. Her home has her name and my name as tenants in common with full rights of survivorship.
I was sitting in the General Plan meeting this morning feeling like I was on a Merry-go-round powered by Catch 22. We need housing for workers to cut traffic commutes, but if we build housing we get more business, which will need more workers and then more housing. And traffic, traffic, traffic, around and around we go.
Chiarello to open eatery, store in Yountville
Celebrity chef Michael Chiarello will be opening a flagship NapaStyle store and a separate restaurant in V Marketplace in Yountville this year.
As you have seen from news last week, the stock market has taken a big hit. This result continues the trend that we have seen for the last several weeks.
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