The article “Cool spring dampening possibilities for corn crop” caught my eye. My immediate thought, given the plethora of recent articles about global warming, was that we are now going to see the wacko environmental nuts like Al Gore hypothesizing that global warming is the cause of the cool spring that is creating a greater crisis for food and ethanol production.

Our job as journalists is to keep you informed about what is taking place in your community. In the year-plus that I’ve been working exclusively online, I’ve seen how we can expand what we do so we can respond almost immediately to what you want to know about.

Dear editor, Somebody call Al Gore! There are unacceptable levels of carbon emissions occurring in Napa Valley! Wait, they are from a naturally occurring source: wildfires. Maybe we should rethink this whole politically correct “man-made” theory of global warming, accepted as “fact” by so many. No amount of government restrictions will ever offset “natural” pollution in the form of wildfires, volcanic gasses and carbon dioxide expelled from living creatures.

Dear editor, I would like to make a few comments regarding Measure N, which narrowly failed in the election.

Dear editor, Thank you for your great coverage of the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life of Napa Valley, scheduled for July 26-27 at Napa Valley College.

Dear editor, I turn 60 in July. It occurs to me that I have no business voting in November. I had my chance and screwed it up. Us old people are short-sighted because we won’t suffer the long-term consequences of our mistakes.

A populist frustration increasingly finding voice in Napa County is that the wine and hospitality industries are pulling in services and attractions that cater principally to upscale vacationers and tourists, while neglecting any sense of a local living wage and inadvertently threatening the very Ag preserve that those industries depend on through, among other things, jumbo-sized developments and hotel mega-resorts in areas that were once only the purview of B&B’s.  

I am surveying the latest news to think over what I want to say about the Obama-McCain race at this point and I can’t help but feeling that the world is breaking down into a lot of chaos right now. I know, I know, it always seems that way, nothing new under the sun, but yet right now ... the problems just seem to be piling up. And there is a gathering sense that things are really out of control. And I am not hearing any answers, just the same old tired propaganda.