Last week the Register selected David Ryan as its new city editor, but that doesn’t mean that David, a veteran Register reporter, will edit the city.

As I write this message, our graduates have just finished their high school careers and are preparing for the next steps toward their futures.

As I write this message, our graduates have just finished their high school careers and are preparing for the next steps toward their futures.

Bloggermania 1 is all set to go, but I’ve had to move the date back one week.

Each summer, the Napa Special Investigations Bureau runs a series of grow-op busts, taking down large areas in the Napa County hills where marijuana is growing. With each pot bust, NSIB leaders estimate the street value of the now-gone cash crop in the tens of millions of dollars.

Eleven years ago, after much political and pedagogic angst, California adopted a historically rigorous set of academic standards for the state’s kindergarten-12th-grade students, one of which — and one of the most contentious — was that eighth-graders should learn the rudiments of algebra.

Eleven years ago, after much political and pedagogic angst, California adopted a historically rigorous set of academic standards for the state’s kindergarten-12th-grade students, one of which — and one of the most contentious — was that eighth-graders should learn the rudiments of algebra.

Dear editor, In September, our team, The Tickled Pinks, will be walking 60 miles over three days in the San Francisco three-day Breast Cancer Walk to benefit the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation.

Dear editor, I consider myself a reasonably intelligent and concerned citizen. For weeks I tried to evaluate the conflicting claims concerning Measure N, carefully reading all the available material.

Dear editor, This letter is in response to the May 30 article "Rodeo noise irks neighbors." We are neither newcomers nor strangers to the sounds that come from the fairgrounds, having owned our home near the fairgrounds for the past 50 years. We have always enjoyed the sounds of excitement that the fairgrounds bring.

Dear editor, I read with some dismay Mr. Anderson's comments in the Napa Valley Register about the noise at the Expo from the rodeo events ("Rodeo noise irks neighbors," May 30).

Dear editor, I consider myself a reasonably intelligent and concerned citizen. For weeks I tried to evaluate the conflicting claims concerning Measure N, carefully reading all the available material.

Dear editor, This letter is in response to the May 30 article “Rodeo noise irks neighbors.” We are neither newcomers nor strangers to the sounds that come from the fairgrounds, having owned our home near the fairgrounds for the past 50 years. We have always enjoyed the sounds of excitement that the fairgrounds bring.

Dear editor, I read with some dismay Mr. Anderson’s comments in the Napa Valley Register about the noise at the Expo from the rodeo events (“Rodeo noise irks neighbors,” May 30).

Dear editor, In September, our team, The Tickled Pinks, will be walking 60 miles over three days in the San Francisco three-day Breast Cancer Walk to benefit the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation.

Ancient Hindu myths always characterized the Goddesses as both the source of all creation as well as destruction, and nowhere is that more evident than here in Napa. Napa is changing and for some it is proving to be a painful birth. In order to bring in the new some of the old has to be destroyed and carted off, literally.

With a number of votes left to be counted, Measure N appears headed towards defeat.

Remember, everyone, starting July 1 it is illegal to hold a cell phone and talk while driving.

The price of gasoline blew through the $4 per gallon barrier a while back.

OK, folks, you've been debating online here for about two weeks now whether John McCain or Barack Obama is your choice for president.

OK, folks, you've been debating online here for about two weeks now whether John McCain or Barack Obama is your choice for president.