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It's Friday and I'm prepping for the weekend. By the time anyone reads these words I will have attended a disc golf tournament at John Ferns Park, the Tunes for Trees benefit for the Woodland Tree...
View ArticleBringing closure to public events
Last weekend was busy. There was the Relay for Life. There was the Ace disc golf tournament. There was Tunes for Trees. There was the Sunrise Rotary Salmon Barbecue. And let's not forget last Friday's...
View Article'All-American Family' focuses on Bay area deaf football players
The inspiring documentary short "All-American Family" unfolds with scenes of a clear Friday evening in Pleasanton. Viewers are whisked to a football field, where "The Star-Spangled Banner" is being...
View ArticleWhat happens in Vegas stays in Vegas
DON'T MISS: "Sinatra 100: An All-Star Grammy Concert" -- What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas -- unless you're celebrating what would have been Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday. Then it becomes a glitzy...
View ArticleHow quickly we forget the lessons of Pearl Harbor
It was 74 years ago this past Monday that America was slapped out of its isolationist stupor as the Japanese launched a devastating attack against U.S. warships and personnel at Pearl Harbor in...
View ArticleIt's winter, so now is the time to save our lawns
Every now and then I receive some form of communication that is so silly it simply has to be passed on for the world.To preface what you're about to read, let me remind everyone that California is in a...
View ArticleThe 51st Holiday Parade is history; bring on Christmas
It's two weeks before Christmas and all through our county, people are slowly coming to grips with the fact that Christmas is nearly here as is the end of the year and the start of 2016.Woodland held...
View ArticleChristmas and Christianity's role in American society
I was watching a made-for-TV show of Arthur Clarke's 1953 book "Childhood's End" on the Sci-Fi channel the other day and noted a brief exchange between an alien "overlord" named Karellen, who looks...
View ArticleRemembering a former judge and Pearl Harbor survivor
I received word this past week about the Dec. 6 death of Warren K. Taylor, 95. Taylor died at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento and donated his body to the medical school, so there was no...
View ArticleU.S. must lead climate efforts by pricing carbon
After decades of contentious and often acrimonious negotiations, the nations of the world have come together with an agreement that places our civilization on a path toward avoiding the worst effects...
View ArticleThere's no slowing down on Christmas Day
On this day of miracles, when Christian myth dictates that a virgin named Mary gave birth to the son of God -- a man named Jesus, I suppose it's also worth noting that 30 percent of GOP voters support...
View ArticleAs we near Year Years, it's important to look ahead
I don't know about you, but I'm tired of the drought and can hardly wait for rain during 2016. That, of course, means, we'll get swamped in our little corner of the world and in about three months I'll...
View ArticleResolutions as we enter the latter half of the 2010s
Isn't this amazing! We've passed "Back to the Future." The future, it seems, isn't as dystopian as The Hunger Games would have you believe. We have seen the future and it is now. There are hoverboards,...
View ArticleWoodland has a night scene and a lot of other scenes as well
As 2016 got underway, one of the questions that I heard was whether Woodland had a "night scene?" The question came after a story The Democrat published on events planned by local restaurants, taverns...
View ArticleThe unfairness of how we treat 'white guys'
Imagine this news story: Word has been received that Latinos throughout Yolo County have united in their stand to take back the property they view as having been taken from them in the 1800s. They have...
View ArticleFor the best show in town, try installing a flat-screen TV
Our family was one of the last in America to get a flat-screen TV. And judging by my ability to get the darn thing on the wall, or the console built beneath it, we won't be getting another.Let me take...
View ArticleOur Town: With 2016, comes a recommitment of staying in touch
Recently it was brought to my attention that my approach to the letters received here at The Democrat, particularly those received in response to my "Around Town" columns where I have responded to the...
View ArticlePlaudits for those reaching out
For those who were not able to attend, last Sunday's American Muslim Voice Foundation's Candlelight Prayer Service at the Woodland Mosque was packed. I wrote that it seemed like a "tent-revival"...
View ArticleWaiting to cash out can be grueling
By the time you read this I'll be on my own island in the Caribbean drinking mai tais and rubbing coconut oil on my wife's back while we wait for our yacht to weigh anchor so we begin a round-the-world...
View ArticleGuest Opinion: Supreme Court may inflict harm on families
Keep your eyes open. While everyone from the president to the pope is talking about inequality, one case with the potential to strike the biggest blow to working people in decades is now before the...
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