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Opinion archive
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Fighting a costly U-turn at Big Ranch and Soscol
Last year when the city extended Big Ranch Road to a connection with Soscol Avenue, it installed a long median that drastically changed the way you had to enter both the Silverado Shopping Center (Longs, Nob Hill, etc.) and the financial center across the street (Bank of America and WestAmerica banks).
Proving Mark Twain wrong in the MST
Mark Twain said “Whiskey is for drinking, and water is for fighting.”
Willie Brown was easily the most colorful, quotable and entertaining politician to ever serve in the California Legislature. A strong case could also be made that for many years he also was the state’s most intelligent and politically savvy political figure.
Let me begin by acknowledging that I was one of the many who thought that Mitt Romney, rather than John McCain, would be the Republican presidential nominee in 2008.
Dear editor,
Love blooms in American Canyon
Dear editor, Last week, Feb. 8-10, our church took on a number of civic projects in American Canyon as part of our “Love Revolution Weekend.”
Dear editor, Please consider the following comments regarding the Register’s article, “Immigration hold placed on driver in injury crash,” on Feb. 8.
Dear editor, I worked hard to help Billy Wilcoxson pass Measure K and know that local sentiment was strongly in favor of Billy’s rights to run his business on his private property.
Dear editor,
Standing up for truth in labeling
Dear editor,
Some voters cast their ballots in the presidential primary race early with an absentee ballot. But because the political landscape can change quickly, many of those votes went for phantom candidates that had dropped out of the race. Should voters wait until election day to cast their ballot?
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