With apologies to Humphrey Bogart: Of all the daily newspapers in all the little towns in all of the country, he walks into ours.

In recent years, juries have awarded increasingly large punitive damages, often dwarfing actual damages. Recently, the United States Supreme Court decided that the punitive damages awarded in the Exxon Valdez oil spill case were excessive, setting a much-needed benchmark for future awards.

Finding information about candidates or topics during election time is easier with the Internet available. We are going to use napavalleyregister.com to make this November’s election as easy as possible to learn all you want about each race on your ballot.

When Jerry Brown was serving his first stint as governor 30 years ago, he gained a well-deserved reputation for changing positions as easily as most folks change their socks.

Dear editor, By the time you read this, it will be too late. Too late for more than 60 mature trees lining the residential streets of Westview and Scenic Drive in Browns Valley.

Dear editor, Congratulations to Ric Morgan for his July 11 letter (“Redefining success”) redefining success in human rather than material terms.

This week I read the agreement between the county and American Canyon concerning American Canyon’s borders and other related issues. I advise anyone who is going to vote on it in American Canyon, and anyone in the county who is concerned about growth issues to take a close look at it. There are some issues that trouble me about it, and I can certainly say that it is a pro growth document.

Proposition 8, the "Limit on Marriage, Constitutional Amendment," on the November ballot, calls for an amendment to the state constitution, declaring that marriage can only be between a man and a woman.