Dec 24, 2012
WALTER WILLIAMS: 100 percent of nothing
JoAnn Watson, Detroit city council member, once said, “Our people in an overwhelming way supported the re-election of this president, and there ought to be a quid pro quo.” In other words, President …
Dec 24, 2012
Speak Out – Dec. 22, 2012
Sunday, 6:40 a.m. Yes, I’m calling in reference to the public transportation. Whether people realize it or not, these folks need this public assistance because there’s people that use this transporta…
Dec 24, 2012
Overheard – Dec. 22, 2012
COLD WEATHER COMING Please encourage everyone to put their pets in a nice warm dry place. People shouldn’t be tying their pets outside, anyway. AlvaJo Allen
Yuck! Emily Hutchison
bahh humm bugg…
Dec 19, 2012
Jobs, and how to avoid getting them — Washington State legalizes weed
Elections have consequences. Mitt Romney was poised to be president of the United States. He lost the election and ended up on the Marriott hotel chain’s Board of Directors. He went from nearly being…
Dec 19, 2012
Speak Out – Dec. 19, 2012
Wednesday, 3:47 p.m. Yes, I just want to say I went to the King Middle School concert last night at Milton High School, and when we got out of it, it was so dark in the parking lot. I think Milton Hi…
Dec 19, 2012
Our View – Social media know us best
We can still recall the events following September 11, 2001. In particular, we remember the administration answering the threat of terrorism with a wealth of ideas – all neatly bundled into “The Patr…
Dec 19, 2012
Overheard – Dec. 19, 2012
CONNECTICUT SHOOTING Pray for America for the wrath yet to come. 2 Chronicles 7:14. If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their w…
Dec 17, 2012
Overheard – Dec. 15, 2012
Overheard
Here are what the readers of the Santa Rosa Press Gazette have to say on our Facebook page.
FAVORITE FOOD ON A COLD NIGHT
Soup or Chili – Christa Hannigan
Chili or Chicken and D…
Dec 17, 2012
Word on the Street – Dec. 15, 2012
What is your most memorable Christmas Gift?
The year my daddy gave me a horse. Ruth Peterson
I got a set of horse head hitching posts. Daniel Thomas
The cowboy books I got in the 80's from m…
Dec 17, 2012
Our government-created financial crisis
Suppose you saw a building on fire. Would you seek counsel from the arsonist who set it ablaze for advice on how to put it out? You say, "Williams, you'd have to be a lunatic to do that!" But that's …