Emergency plans are important With more wet weather on its way, Pacific Gas & Electric reminds all customers in Benicia to have a plan if an emergency strikes. This includes an emergency kit, a way to communicate with family members and other proactive steps to be prepared. Just as PG&E has a plan for potential […]
Mrs. B’s Blather: Who is the Ugly American?
How can I help myself from chiming in on the President Donald Trump harangue? I can’t. Some of you remember years ago the traveling American who wore Hawaiian shirts, a camera hanging from his neck and a very loud voice. He was symbolic of an American who did not have any interest in the culture […]
Christina Strawbridge: Benicia is a great tourist destination
The city of Benicia’s investment of $65,000 a year for its contract with Wolf Communications has been questioned because the city cannot definitively show a direct link between either the number of tourists who visit Benicia nor the dollars spent by those visitors. It is not realistic to base one’s opinion on the absence of […]
Letters: Supervisor thanks Benicia
Thank you, Benicia I wanted to thank the residents of Benicia who came to speak with me at my office hours on Monday, Feb. 6. It was such a joy to meet with the people of Benicia. I will be holding monthly office hours the first Monday of every month from 5 to 7 p.m. […]
Matt Talbot: Some thoughts on a massacre, 4 years later
One refrain heard from the NRA after every mass shooting incident by a lone deranged gunman is that it is “too soon” to have a political discussion about guns and gun control – that to have that discussion is to “politicize a tragedy.” Well, it has been a little over four years since Adam Lanza […]
The A Cappella Handyman: Tinker
There was a time of old when the tinker, a silversmith of sorts, travelled by buggy or cart from village to village fixing pots and pans. Not all were silver either, maybe they were pewter or cast iron or copper, or inexpensive pot metal, whatever that served the cooking needs of the many on his […]
Letters: Good community relations
Good community relations Reading Super Bowl Sunday’s Benicia Herald, I was stunned. Why? Mayor Patterson’s 2016 Year in Review comment about Valero. I thought it was a threat. She said, “I look forward to the promise of the good community relations–mentioned by Valero in its announcement– now that we can put this project (crude by […]
Letters: Industrial Park and the General Plan
City should finance Industrial Park broadband update On Jan. 24, the Benicia City Council received an update on the outstanding broadband services project for the Benicia Industrial Park, with Economic Development Manager Mario Giuliani presenting three options: 1. The city of Benicia will self-finance the project, at a cost of $3 to $5 million; 2. […]
Matt Talbot: Godwin’s Law overturned on appeal
Godwin’s Law is, in the words of Wikipedia, “an Internet adage which asserts that ‘As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1’—that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler. “…there […]
Letters: Measure C, sanctuary cities and more
Measure C priorities I was so delighted to see all the politico folks taking a bow over the nice railing. Do you think it is possible they could be as happy standing next to one of our ever growing potholes around town? I am getting to feel a bit like Nascar driver in order to […]