We’ve heard all your lies. Had Enough! Your psychotic alibis. Had Enough! On our children’s backs is a bullseye! Had Enough! Your motto is kill and let die. Shame on you! You’re nothing but a killing tool. You’ll get your due! We should have listened to your plan. Shame on us. You warned us, “from […]
Letters: Congressional debates, gun control and FedEx
LWV should host congressional debate I am the Green Party candidate for Congress in this district, and I am trying to get the League of Women Voters in Benicia to host a debate. They are telling me that they will host a candidate forum only, and only if all candidates are present. The problem with […]
‘March for Our Lives’ draws hundreds in Benicia
Marches have been rare throughout Benicia’s history. Mayor Elizabeth Patterson claimed the last one was held in the World War II era. However, that changed when 800 to 1,500 people filled the streets of downtown Benicia for the March for our Lives. Like the thousands of other Marches for Our Lives events held throughout the […]
VIDEOS: Speeches at Benicia March for Our Lives rally
Benicia High students rally on campus for gun control
Unlike at the thousands of schools across the country, zero students walked out of Benicia High School during the National School Walkout. Instead, students held a rally in the quad during Access Period to give speeches on preventing future gun violence and improving their school. Senior Carson Rendell began the rally with a moment of […]
Thompson seeks bipartisan help with gun violence prevention
By Donna Beth Weilenman Martinez News-Gazette Special to the Herald Saying that more than 11,000 people have died so far this year through gunfire, U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson has asked for President Donald Trump’s help to find a solution to “the senseless and needless violence.” Of those, at least 59 died and more than 500 […]
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 […]