I don’t know about you but I’m sick of paying more than $4 a gallon for gas and being told it will be higher next week and even higher next month — possibly more than $6 per gallon.

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.

Look, up in the sky.

Dear editor, the Department of Veterans Affairs is considering adding hypertension to the list of conditions presumed to be a consequence of exposure to Agent Orange.

Dear editor, thank you for the front-page article in the June 22 issue of the Napa Valley Register regarding the rejection by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau of “Tulocay” as an Approved Viticulture Area designation in the Coombsville section of the Napa Valley.

Dear editor, those of us who live on the east side of Napa can pass Tulocay Cemetery enjoying the magnificent floral display of roses, bridal wreath and clematis vines cascading over the rock wall. Rain or shine the dedicated gardeners prune and trim so that more flowers bloom.

Dear editor, my heart hurts because of the horrendous horrors happening from a culture clash between the peaceful environments and beliefs of so many Asian people and the kind of Christian contentment I have experienced here in California where so many Asian immigrants live.

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.