Gould was my best friend. He was an all-consuming fisherman. His father took him fishing in the Sierra foothills, Idaho and Wyoming. Gould also fished our local stream for practice in San Pablo Creek.

Seems there's talk a'brewing about Bloggermania II, building on the success of last month's first-ever gathering of those who comment online to Register articles.

Our job as journalists is to keep you informed about what is taking place in your community. In the year-plus that I’ve been working exclusively online, I’ve seen how we can expand what we do so we can respond almost immediately to what you want to know about.

A legislative analysis of Senate Bill 823 declares that during the 1980s, California acquired the reputation of being “the diploma mill capital of the world.”

Dear editor,

Dear editor,

Dear editor,

Dear editor,

A populist frustration increasingly finding voice in Napa County is that the wine and hospitality industries are pulling in services and attractions that cater principally to upscale vacationers and tourists, while neglecting any sense of a local living wage and inadvertently threatening the very Ag preserve that those industries depend on through, among other things, jumbo-sized developments and hotel mega-resorts in areas that were once only the purview of B&B’s.  

I am surveying the latest news to think over what I want to say about the Obama-McCain race at this point and I can’t help but feeling that the world is breaking down into a lot of chaos right now. I know, I know, it always seems that way, nothing new under the sun, but yet right now ... the problems just seem to be piling up. And there is a gathering sense that things are really out of control. And I am not hearing any answers, just the same old tired propaganda.