The Register will get a bit of a makeover this week.

We (my husband, our 2-year-old and I) love Oxbow Public Market and go two to three times a month to eat, sip and shop year round.

A social experiment in online decorum has resulted in tremendous online progress for our Web site and our readers. We have reached a point where almost all of our readers are staying on topic and not attacking the messenger.

Before he became California’s president pro tem of the Senate — thus gaining the thankless chore of dealing with the state’s immense budget crisis — Darrell Steinberg was best known for a 2004 ballot measure that raised income taxes on the wealthy for local mental health services.

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Dear editor,

Dear editor,

Today President Obama appointed Kathleen Sebelius to head up his Health and Human Services Department, a key position for his Presidency. It is a welcome effort because there is no doubt that we need serious reform, but like the efforts underway for alternative energy the costs for this program tend to be understated.

Maybe you've seen them on various Web sites, or perhaps you've laughed at the Julia Wertz book, "I Saw You," full of cartoons poking some good-natured fun at the Missed Opportunities ads ... you know, the ones where a person tries via the Internet to get word out to someone they saw on the street, in a coffeehouse, while driving down the street or more ...