I love summer, as do a lot of kids. I mean, who wouldn't? You don't have to worry about school and homework and you get to hang out by the pool with friends, go on vacation, sleep in, hold Lemonade Stands... speaking of Lemonade Stands, it's a lot more work than you think, especially if you're not just selling lemonade...

...nor any drop to drink. That’s the famous old lament from Samuel Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

Johnny Apodaca, executive director of Serenity Homes of Napa Valley, is a determined man on a quest to make the citizens of the Napa Valley aware of Serenity Homes’ desperate need for at least $350,000 to avoid foreclosure and to help purchase and refinance homes currently housing 45 men and women who are committed to rebuilding their lives, free of alcohol and drugs.

After the June election, a collective sense of exhaustion seemed to replace the people’s fire and energy about residential development and the future of Napa County.

Dear editor, People talk about "stupid drivers," but is it possible that poor drivers are quite literally stupid? I apologize if this comes across as arrogant or fascist, but there needs to be a minimum IQ provision before the government issues any more drivers licenses. This is based on my personal theory that there must exist a correlation between a person's IQ and their ability to cope with the cognitive demands of operating a motor vehicle.

Dear editor, According to the Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration, more than 100,000 crashes a year are caused by drivers running red lights, killing some 950 people and injuring 90,000 others, making it a leading cause of fatal crashes.

Dear editor, Last summer there was an article written ("An Actor's Life," July 2, 2007) about local actress, Elisabeth Perez, age 9. She plays Eleanor, one of the classmates of Kit Kittredge in the new "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" movie, which is currently playing in theaters.

The world is changing along the lines of a liberal vision, with conservatives pulling hard to stop it but unable to do so, merely providing a braking action as the coming liberal vision of the world keeps skidding forward.

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.

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