After the election, I grieved like a puppy that had lost its tail, heard the acceptance and concession speeches and went on my way to see a customer, scheduled new work and then headed to Nation’s for breakfast. Good luck, World and America, your new boy thinks Global Warming is a hoax, his majority colleagues […]
With all precincts reporting, Elizabeth Patterson maintains slight lead in mayoral race
Steve Young and Tom Campbell leading in city council race As of Wednesday morning with all precincts reporting, Mayor Elizabeth Patterson has a slight lead over her opponent Mark Hughes. Patterson currently possesses 50.37 percent of the vote to Hughes’ 49.33 percent. The Solano County Registrar of Voters has identified one overvote and 528 undervotes. […]
Solano College students interpret yearlong campaign in election-themed art show
America’s presidential election might be over, but that does not mean it is too early to start looking back on the wild ride throughout 2016 and much of 2015. One might think that with all the commentary and late-night comedy shows, there are no more creative ways to describe one of the more divisive elections […]
Bruce Robinson: The Red Queen and Obama’s legacy
Remember The Red Queen in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”? If you’re a millennial, probably not. Some may think it’s Helena Bonham Carter, the actress who played The Red Queen in Tim Burton’s 2010 film version starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. But, as one anonymous online reviewer of that glitzy production observed, “Poor Lewis […]
Vice Mayor Mark Hughes to run for mayor in November
Staff Report Benicia Vice Mayor Mark Hughes has announced his intention to run for mayor in the upcoming November election. “When I first ran for City Council many years ago, my goal was to get into politics without becoming a politician; to make decisions and cast votes for what I truly believed was in the […]
City Council candidate to host meet and greet at The Loft tonight
Lionel Largaespada, a candidate for Benicia City Council, will be at The Loft Wine Bar and Restaurant this evening from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. for a meet and greet event. Benicia residents are invited to attend and ask questions of the candidate while supporting a local downtown business. The event will be hosted by […]
Bruce Robinson: “A foolish consistency” or the “iron string”?
(Note: This was originally published in the May 1, 2016 edition of the Herald) It has been 174 years since the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson first published his 10,000-word essay titled “Self-Reliance.” [http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm] Throughout the first half of the 20th Century, school and college textbooks included at least a condensed version of this essay […]
Matt Talbot: A bright, flashing warning
Mark Twain supposedly once said, “History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes,” and I think he was onto something. The United States is not Weimar Germany, but there are some non-trivial similarities that ought not to be dismissed. While Americans are not post-Great War Germans half-starved by years of reparations payments, I suspect a […]
Devon Minnema: The void left by Bernie Sanders
Now that the primary here in California is over and we have a fairly concrete idea of who the two nominees will be, it’s time that we dispel some false ideas before we etch this primary into history. One that I have heard a few too many times is essentially that Bernie Sanders’ popularity among […]
Solano County primary election results mirror that of state’s
On Tuesday, voters across California turned up in droves to vote in the state’s primary election. In Solano County, the results were no different than how citizens voted in the rest of the state. As in the state’s Democratic presidential primary election, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won in Solano County over Vermont Sen. […]