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Can the local GOP come back? 13 Mar 2013 | 12:09 am
By PETE GOLIS Peter Behr was a Yale-educated lawyer who represented the North Bay in the state Senate from 1970 to 1978. Among the Legislature’s most passionate advocates for the environment, Behr, wh...
And the Oscar goes to . . . 19 Feb 2013 | 10:05 pm
If you read my February 10 column – here – you know I’ve been eating a lot of popcorn lately. I wrote about six Oscar-nominated movies and what they tell us about the time in which we live. Shameless ...
A community takes care of its own 28 Jan 2013 | 09:07 pm
Lori A. Carter reports this morning that more than 1,000 people attended Sunday afternoon’s benefit for Cristina Garcia, 16, and Alexis Vargas, 17. If you were there, you know this was an extraordinar...
Enjoy California, but keep your clothes on 26 Nov 2012 | 10:26 pm
By PETE GOLIS I drove through San Francisco last week and saw absolutely no one in a state of undress. It may be that folks otherwise tempted to disrobe anticipated the next day’s headline in The Pres...
Making politics fun again 30 Oct 2012 | 03:10 am
Even if you don’t live in Cotati or Rohnert Park, even if you know absolutely nothing about Karyn Pulley, you may want to vote for her. Pulley is the school board member targeted last week by a pair o...
Will you buy a new iPad? 1 Mar 2011 | 06:54 am
Anyone who pays attention to the tech world knows that a second-generation iPad will be unveiled on Wednesday. In the blogosphere, the rumor mill has it that the new device will boast a camera and a f...
What will happen to the Huffington Post? 8 Feb 2011 | 08:25 am
On Sunday, I wrote – here – about the challenges and uncertainties of journalism in the digital age. Now comes the news that AOL will purchase The Huffington Post – a site that combines liberal politi...
Nuts, fruit baskets and Tuesday’s election 4 Nov 2010 | 12:29 pm
I spent the morning contemplating the deeper meanings of Tuesday’s election - just me and a zillion other orange-clad fanatics lined up on the streets of San Francisco. For the San Francisco Giants’ ...
Jerry Brown’s second act 3 Nov 2010 | 03:11 pm
Thirty years ago, as a member of the Capitol Press Corps, I covered the administration of a governor named Jerry Brown. A.P. just projected that the next governor of California has the same name. What...
Will GOP rout reach to California? 2 Nov 2010 | 01:11 am
Pundits today are calling it by all kinds of names – rout, tsunami, massacre, earthquake. Whatever they call it, it seems clear that Republicans across the country will score a massive victory on Tues...
