Stepping Up
Sonoma County Democrats are urging Petaluma voters to vote YES on Measure I, which would provide locally controlled funding for our junior high/ high schools that cannot be taken away by the state to attract/ retain excellent teachers; enhance math, science, engineering, technology, writing programs; maintain smaller class sizes; and prepare students for college/ careers.
Petaluma Joint Union High School District Educational Excellence Measure would levy an $129 educational parcel tax, raising $3,020,000 annually, for eight years, with exemptions for seniors, no funds for administrators’ salaries and independent citizen oversight.
It is crucial that our community respond to dwindling state and federal support by stepping up and providing our teachers and students with the funding needed for high quality education.
Vote by Nov. 4 for the Nov. 4 Special Election.
Pat Sabo
Sonoma County
Church and Hate
While there are still some flimsy safeguards to separate Church from State in our country, the past 40 years or so have seen an advancing partnership involving Church and Hate.
The days are long past when religious groups stood on the periphery of party politics. The most active are also the most regressive and grounded in racial and social practices that are undemocratic at best.
That so many pressure groups are so fixed against DEI, gender identification fluidity and so-called “woke” culture is heavy with irony, and we Americans are now living out a new form of entrenched “blame the victim” drama, propelled by self-styled and well-funded believers. Believing in what is what’s uncertain.
Craig J. Corsini
San Rafael
