Media literacy educators warn of tech firms and military entities in the classroom, offering "free digital tools" to collect data and ideological control.

Humanity has a serious nuclear weapons problem. We have created a weapon that is so powerful that it poses an existential threat to us as a species.

The biggest fraud in the Republican's budget charade is the unproven accusation that fraud, waste and abuse are rampant within the government.

June 6-12, 2007 All Music Guide: There are millions of old records out there in the world—believe me, I dig through thousands of them each week. But records made in my hometown are rare, and every ...

The theater business is a treacherous, ugly mud pit where love is desecrated and money rules all—and especially in Santa Rosa, where the Tocchinis, the Coddings and the Duggans have owned or operated ...

Longtime locals remember it all too well. In February of 1986, the storm would just not stop, dropping 24 inches of rain over a 10-day period. The overflowing Russian River reached a record high water ...

Are Marin conservationists ready to flatten the freeway tax? By Paula Harris COMMUTERS who regularly brave Highway 101 are no strangers to traffic snarls, gridlock-producing accidents, and horrendous ...

02.06.08 Something’s fishy with Colgan Creek. Or rather, something’s not fishy, and that’s got city of Santa Rosa Public Works’ officials concerned. As part of their task to check the health of area ...

T he most famous fortified wine of all, Porto is as Portuguese as a Lodi Zinfandel is Californian. So how must the Portuguese feel now that wineries around the world have seized the word—which is, of ...

Here’s a bunch of music that in some way or another might provide you with some sonic shelter from this particular storm that’s a-brewin’. 1. Sister Rosetta Tharpe “Didn’t It Rain” Oh, but didn’t it ...

The General’s Daughter gets our attention By Paula Harris ADMIT IT: This is the time of year when “gift” becomes a four-letter word, and any tolerance for holiday hordes (and, God knows, Sonoma County ...

Best of the North BayPrimal Beats“Generally speaking, definitions are a big waste of time.” Someone said that once, and we were just wondering who it was. Might have been Kerouac or Ginsberg, ...