.Opinion

Dec 9, 2025

Color Me Meh: The Coming ‘Color of the Year’ is, Um, White

Pantone has anointed its 2026 Color of the Year and, in an act of breathtaking caution, selected white. Well, basically white. “Cloud Dancer” is its official name—a soft, contemplative white-adjacent non-color billed as a balm for our overstimulated moment.  I found it ironic that this news arrived days after a...
May 27, 2025

Playing Chicken, Reporting from the Field

As Bob Dylan might’ve observed about Petaluma this past weekend, “The sun’s not yellow; it’s chicken,” when a poultry-hued...
May 20, 2025

Open Mic: Say It Ain’t So, Ex-Prez Cover Up

President Joe Biden’s recent disclosure of an aggressive, metastatic prostate cancer diagnosis has cast a somber shadow over the...
May 6, 2025

Open Mic: The New Math, Saving Democracy By the Numbers

Think resisting authoritarianism is too big of a lift? Think again. This spring, while the U.S. resistance movement may...
Apr 8, 2025

Open Mic: Outta Gas

On April 10, the Santa Rosa Planning Commission will hold a public hearing to decide whether or not to...
Apr 1, 2025

Open Mic: Don’t Judge Me, Mi Agenda es Su Agenda

For light reading, I enjoy books and articles that clearly demonstrate that democracy is dead and American society is...
Mar 25, 2025

Open Mic: Driven & Riven, When a Car Drives Hate

It’s not every day one sees a Tesla surrounded by hand-painted placards reading “Deport Elon” or “F/Elon,” but that’s...
Mar 11, 2025

Kindness Is a Superpower, Even from Half a World Away

It was Friday, Feb. 28,  a day of national protest to the establishing of an oligarchic government in our...
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