Next month the Napa Valley Register — the good old-fashioned, paper-and-ink Napa Valley Register — will make a long-contemplated change.

With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, many revelers will take to local bars and taverns to celebrate. Unfortunately, some will try to drive home while under the influence of alcohol, putting themselves and other drivers on the road at risk.

Back in January, former President Bill Clinton came to Napa to promote his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s run for the Democratic presidential nomination. During his speech he was very clear that any talk about a vice president was not only premature but detrimental to her campaign.

They call themselves the Napa Coalition for Responsible Growth.

Dear editor, Thank you, Napa Register, for printing an article about the vaccine-autism lawsuit recently won by the parents of an autistic child in federal court.

Dear editor, The American Red Cross has seemed to me like a foundation of American giving, from my fifth grade reading about its founder — civil War nurse Clara Barton — to high school enrollment in Red Cross lifesaving and first aid classes. In looking for volunteer work this past year, the Red Cross seemed like the perfect place to start.

Should it come to it, Vallejo would not be the first American community to declare bankruptcy. Since the Federal government changed the rules allowing for municipal bankruptcy during the Great Depression, many local governments have sought that protection.

Watching the Elliot Spitzer situation unfold in New York, and having been the subject of some bullying myself lately, it brought to mind the whole issue for me again. It may seem like a rather mundane question, but the truth is that it is a big important question that we as a society have had a lot of trouble dealing with.

Here's a link to the article that sparked the Question of the Week.