Opinion
William Neville: Fixing the wildland/interface fire problem
February 22, 2019 — Let me suggest some things our newly elected governor, Assembly and Senate should consider if they are serious about mitigating the urban-wildland fire problem: 1. Submit, for voter approval, a program to re-designate funds (approaching $100 billion) now directed to the "Super Train" to wildfire
Paul Matson: How did all this happen?
February 22, 2019 — The Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad began service in 1876 and continued until 1943. The tracks were then removed and the rolling stock dispersed. The 22-mile route ran from Nevada City to Grass Valley and then on to Colfax where you could catch a trainThanks for letting us be part of your lives
February 22, 2019 — For 46 years, our family has been at the corner of Pine and Commercial. To have a constant in your life for 46 years is no small thing. It is a lifetime. A lifetime of "the restaurant" being in our constant vocabulary, of amazing customersLynn Wenzel: The heartbeats of women
February 22, 2019 — Yes, indeed, Ms. McLaughlin, heartbeats should be heard — those of the millions of women across this country who also have a right to life, health, safety, legal protection — all those things you demand for unborn fetuses. I lived through the pre-Roe v. WadeOur View: No punishment is enough in Sabrina Distura case
February 22, 2019 — The skies of Los Banos brooded on the day Sabrina Distura was sentenced for the deaths of two Nevada Union High School students. Intermittent rain and gray landscapes greeted those who drove almost 200 miles from Grass Valley to the Central Valley town. They trudged
R.L. Crabb: It takes a village idiot
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Thomas Elias: Will California GOP become a dinosaur?
February 22, 2019 — In mid-2016, just before Donald Trump won the presidency, California's Republican Party was on pace to become the third choice of state voters within three years, the first "major" political party to fall that low since Whigs became extinct just before the Civil War. The
