Editorial

— Rollie Atkinson

In just two weeks we will turn our calendars to a new year as we

Holiday Crafters Nook at the Senior Center

Editor: Three cheers for Supervisor Paul Kelley's opposition to

Governor Jerry Brown recently signed five important tobacco control laws, made possible because of the governor’s special session on health legislation.

Spring is a time of renewal, new hope and new ideas. It’s also a time to shake up our existing notions of how our communities operate.

Matthew Hall was hired as a reporter for the Healdsburg Tribune in 2006. He has been the editor of the Windsor Times for seven years, and during that time also served as the Tribune’s editor during vacations and maternity leaves.

For the last 15 years, I have been a volunteer in prisons, teaching convicted felons in the field of sociology and running self-help groups. Most of my students are “lifers,” men who have been convicted of serious crimes like murder, rape, or burglary for which they have received sentences of 15 years to life and much more. None of them are on death row, and most are now eligible for parole, having served their minimum sentences. Often, they have served far longer.