Dear editor, I had the fortune of attending one of the most amazing concerts I have been to in a while at the Yountville Lincoln Theater on Sept. 13. The Napa Valley Symphony hosted Mariachi Cobre and the combination was amazing!

Dear editor, The meltdown of our financial giants is very interesting, especially when you compare all the propaganda we have been force-fed for decades:

Dear editor, On a recent Sunday afternoon, I overheard a burly white fellow tell another slightly less burly just-as-white fellow how he would vote for Obama if only he wasn’t black. He liked Obama, even went as far as to say he pretty much saw eye to eye with him, but he just couldn’t vote for a black man. His friend let him know that he heard him as he nodded in agreement and went back to sweetening his coffee.