113th Congress
Vallejo's Farmers Market is meeting or exceeding organizers' expectations, both on Saturday and the new Wednesday evening edition, and may be on the way to becoming a successful regional gem, a market spokesman said.
Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association Director John Silveira said an estimated 4,200 shoppers visited Vallejo's Farmers Market on Saturday and some 400 came to the smaller, inaugural Wednesday evening version last week.
By John Glidden -
A few had trouble standing during the singing of the national anthem; age forcing some to hold onto a loved one or a cane. They stood, saluting the flag, like so many times before.
Yet, it was a different atmosphere for the Vallejo Vietnam War veterans Saturday who filed into the Veterans Memorial Building on Admiral Callaghan Lane.
Many had waited decades for this day and they were not to be denied recognition one minute longer.
By Richard Freedman -
Some will come because they were asked. Some will come because they figure it's about time.
Some can't make it. And others won't come because the memories are far too painful.
Still, 557 local Vietnam veterans will be saluted at the Vallejo Veterans Memorial Building on Saturday — the 50th anniversary of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of the conflict that took the lives of more than 58,000 American troops.
Vineyard owners along the Napa River showed off the environmental benefits Monday of working cooperatively with government agencies to improve the lives of fish and other wildlife.
For the last decade, landowners in Napa County have enrolled in a fish-friendly farming program that allows them to produce a plan of environmentally friendly farming practices specific to their property, and have regulatory agencies sign off.
The House Intelligence Committee, led by Republicans, has concluded that there was no deliberate wrongdoing by the Obama administration in the 2012 attack on the U.S.
The House Intelligence Committee, led by Republicans, has concluded that there was no deliberate wrongdoing by the Obama administration in the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, said Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, the second-ranking Democrat on the committee.
The panel voted Thursday to declassify the report, the result of two years of investigation by the committee. U.S. intelligence agencies will have to approve making the report public.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Gregg Harper (R-MS) today introduced bipartisan legislation to expand telehealth services under Medicare. The bill, titled the Medicare Telehealth Parity Act of 2014 puts telehealth services under Medicare on the path toward parity with in-person health care visits.
The Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport has received a $1 million federal grant for environmental work associated with its runway expansion project, Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, announced Monday.
The project's environmental mitigation costs, to deal with endangered plant and animal species, have run to $21 million, mostly borne by the county. The $53 million runway project is 90 percent federally funded.