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Windsor Letters to the Editor, January 25, 2017

Modern storm troopers

Letters to the Editor 7-24-14

It Takes a Village

Marketing wineries

With a 30-year professional background in the local wine industry, including marketing positions at leading Sonoma-Napa wineries, as well as directing tasting rooms and wine clubs, and organizing special events by the score, I would like to make some observations in the context of the current debate over special events at Sonoma County wineries.

Inconvenient sunshine

Most of us are still adjusting to Daylight Saving Time, trying to get our biological clocks re-set to early morning darkness and droopy eyelids. All this to save an hour of evening sunlight? We can think of better things worth saving.

It’s not too late

We are on the dawn of the Nov. 4 elections, but even if they were still many weeks away, it would still be too late to vote. Anyway, polling booths are very public places and the danger of catching Ebola could be very high. Plus, random “lone wolf” terrorists are probably lying in wait.

Up in the air?

One might say that the current dispute about a flight school at the Healdsburg Municipal Airport is simply a NIMBY issue by folks who live near the airport. The rest of you could say,  “It doesn’t affect me”….or does it?

Hard to swallow

What seems unignorable amidst all the winegrowers' yelping and

Fire fee

One of the more publicized events to have come out of Sacramento

Proposition 24: More data privacy

As part of its statewide election coverage, CalMatters has given Sonoma West Publishers permission to use its explainers of state propositions. Scroll through the module below to learn about Proposition 24. 

Jordan Vineyard & Winery embarks on multi-year plan to craft a habitat for pollinators

Earlier this spring, Jordan Vineyard & Winery announced the launch of a multi-year planting program to turn several acres of non-native grassland into a preserved habitat for pollinators such as the Western Monarch butterfly, natives bees and other insects.
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