My commute to work takes less than 10 minutes. That includes battling through the worst that Freeway Drive and the First Street bridge over Highway 29 have to offer.

Get ready for a shock! Friday, Jan. 16, 2009, front-page, New York Times: “With a depleted endowment, fewer donations and slowing sales, the Metropolitan Opera is said to face a crisis unless drastic cuts are made.”

For once, I agree with Arnold

Are you interested if something newsworthy happens to someone who lives in Napa — or once lived here — even though the incident happens outside the wine country?

The fastest-growing segment of California’s deficit-ridden budget, by far, has been its prison system, reflecting severe overcrowding, generous labor contracts and federal court pressure to reform inmate health care.

Dear editor,

Dear editor,

Tuesday, the Napa County Board of Supervisors will look at the principles guiding them in this years budget preparation process, and one thing on the agenda giving me pause is the statement "Pursue new revenues to the fullest extent possible for all services.”

Remember when we were kids and we took Valentine's Day cards to school? In some of my elementary school classes there would be bags for the cards to be put in so no one could see if one person had a lot and another only had a few.

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It certainly looks like the Obama team does a very poor job in vetting their nominees. Now there is another Obama cabinet pick who has a tax problem and a conflict of interest problem.

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Napa city officials are spending $600,000-plus for a Downtown Specific Plan on future development of the city's downtown core.