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Start the Presses: A long, in-depth look at the Yountville Commons project
The people at the center of Yountville's housing debate turned out to be among the hardest people to interview. Think about that for a moment. A town was arguing over homes for its workforce. There were public meetings, financial studies, petitions and campaign signs. Influential people had plenty to say about what workers needed. But getting the workers was another matter. That is a big part of the story behind the Register's three-part series on the Yountville Commons, which concludes in the Nov.
Start the Presses: A long, in-depth look at the Yountville Commons project
Think about that for a moment. A town was arguing over homes for its workforce. There were public meetings, financial studies, petitions and campaign signs. Influential people had plenty to say about what workers needed. But getting the workers was another matter. That is a big part of the story behind the Register's three-part series on the Yountville Commons, which concludes in the Nov. 12 print edition. It is also why this series matters to me so much. Correspondent Lauren A. Spates kept asking.
Election 2026: Is there a connection between astrological sign and party preference? (Spoiler: no)
During the (increasingly) long election season, faced with an (increasingly) lengthy ballot of candidates and initiatives, voters can hardly be blamed for wanting to turn it all off for a moment. Things just feel so, well, serious, that it’s only natural to want to focus on something, anything, else. But since it is Election Day, we’re going to play off politics in a slightly different, perhaps off-kilter, way.
[Updated Nov. 2] Almost 31K Napa County voters have already returned their ballots. See where they live
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Where and how to vote in Napa County
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The count: Ballot returns and voting patterns
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Wealth, poverty and party preference: A snapshot of Napa County voters
The interactive is loading. If it does not appear, please reload this page. NAPA VALLEY REGISTER DATA & COMMUNITY THE ELECTORATE · NAPA COUNTY Explore the geography of party registration, the generations behind it and the economic context of the places voters call home. OCT.
Start the Presses: What AB 2222 means for local journalism, Part 2
Last week, I devoted this space to explaining a bit about the implications of the recently signed AB 2222, the Community NEWS Act. The state law provides refundable tax credits for local news organizations like the Napa Valley Register with the aim of keeping this incredibly valuable industry (not that I'm biased or anything here) thriving. As I've written before, we are hardly a disinterested party.
Start the Presses: What AB 2222 means for local journalism, Part 2
Last week, I devoted this space to explaining a bit about the implications of the recently signed AB 2222, the Community NEWS Act. The state law provides refundable tax credits for local news organizations like the Napa Valley Register with the aim of keeping this incredibly valuable industry (not that I'm biased or anything here) thriving. As I've written before, we are hardly a disinterested party.
Start the Presses: What AB 2222 means for local journalism, Part 2
Last week, I devoted this space to explaining a bit about the implications of the recently signed AB 2222, the Community NEWS Act. The state law provides refundable tax credits for local news organizations like the Napa Valley Register with the aim of keeping this incredibly valuable industry (not that I'm biased or anything here) thriving. As I've written before, we are hardly a disinterested party.
Start the Presses: What AB 2222 means for local journalism, Part 2
Last week, I devoted this space to explaining a bit about the implications of the recently signed AB 2222, the Community NEWS Act. The state law provides refundable tax credits for local news organizations like the Napa Valley Register with the aim of keeping this incredibly valuable industry (not that I'm biased or anything here) thriving. As I've written before, we are hardly a disinterested party.
Start the Presses: What AB 2222 means for local journalism, Part 2
As I’ve written before, we are hardly a disinterested party. Based on our internal calculations, the credit could generate between $160,000 and $175,000 per year from the Register’s qualifying journalism positions. The credit begins with the 2027 tax year, and the first funds are expected to arrive in 2028, so it’s not an immediate thing.
Start the Presses: What AB 2222 means for local journalism
A few weeks back, I asked readers to join me in supporting AB 2222 - better known as the Community NEWS Act - which would provide tax credits to California news organizations based on the journalists they employ. I'm happy to say Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill - on the Sept. 30 deadline, no less - offering a bit of stability to an industry that has seen more than its fair share of troubles.
Start the Presses: What AB 2222 means for local journalism
A few weeks back, I asked readers to join me in supporting AB 2222 — better known as the Community NEWS Act — which would provide tax credits to California news organizations based on the journalists they employ. I’m happy to say Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill — on the Sept. 30 deadline, no less — offering a bit of stability to an industry that has seen more than its fair share of troubles.
West Marin and relaxation: 24 hours in Point Reyes
The cash-only coffee bar in the middle of Point Reyes Station often seems full of visitors, drawn in by the multicolored rocking chairs — or maybe just by the relatively low-cost luxury of a latte. And, sometimes, the impromptu concerts. Just past the coffee window, in the breezeway, sits a piano, positioned between the animal feed area and the tchotchkes-laden store that make up the eclectic enterprise that is Toby’s Feed Barn. Sometimes someone will play it. Sometimes they will be good.
Start the Presses: Carrying others in that last loop around Skyline
One of the first things you learn in an outrigger canoe is that no one moves the boat alone. Paddlers find the same rhythm, keep pulling when tired and trust the people around them. That's how I know Eileen Smith, not through the newspaper, but as a teammate at Ohana Wa'a. Last month, Eileen celebrated her 70th birthday by inviting runners and walkers to a community workout at Redwood Middle School benefiting JP's Backyard Ultra and the Pheo Para Alliance.
Start the Presses: Carrying others in that last loop around Skyline
One of the first things you learn in an outrigger canoe is that no one moves the boat alone. Paddlers find the same rhythm, keep pulling when tired and trust the people around them. That’s how I know Eileen Smith, not through the newspaper, but as a teammate at Ohana Wa’a. Last month, Eileen celebrated her 70th birthday by inviting runners and walkers to a community workout at Redwood Middle School benefiting JP’s Backyard Ultra and the Pheo Para Alliance.
Start the Presses: More than 125 groups back AB 2222 to save local journalism
Journalists can, and do, argue about almost anything. Put more than 125 news organizations and advocacy groups together, and you might have trouble getting them on what time to have lunch, much less what to eat. But this week, an unusually broad coalition came together with one message for Gov. Gavin Newsom: Sign AB 2222.
Start the Presses: More than 125 groups back AB 2222 to save local journalism
Journalists can, and do, argue about almost anything. Put more than 125 news organizations and advocacy groups together, and you might have trouble getting them on what time to have lunch, much less what to eat. But this week, an unusually broad coalition came together with one message for Gov. Gavin Newsom: Sign AB 2222.
Start the Presses: Memories of the 9/11 attacks on its 25th anniversary
Twenty-four years ago this month I found myself in Manhattan, near the beginning of my time at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. My job that day was to help cover the first anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. I remember waking up early, almost paralyzed with anxiety, a combination of the fish-out-of-water feeling that comes from moving to a new city and survivor's guilt.
Start the Presses: Memories of the 9/11 attacks on its 25th anniversary
Twenty-four years ago this month I found myself in Manhattan, near the beginning of my time at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. My job that day was to help cover the first anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. I remember waking up early, almost paralyzed with anxiety, a combination of the fish-out-of-water feeling that comes from moving to a new city and survivor’s guilt.
Start the Presses: What Nextdoor is actually telling us
About 15 years ago, while the editor of the Burbank Leader and Glendale News-Press, I found myself with a personal online troll. He ran a blog that opined about everything wrong with Burbank, its leaders and, most definitely, its newspaper. Nearly every week, he published long rants about the coverage, distorting what we had written and accusing us of bias.
Start the Presses: What Nextdoor is actually telling us
About 15 years ago, while the editor of the Burbank Leader and Glendale News-Press, I found myself with a personal online troll. He ran a blog that opined about everything wrong with Burbank, its leaders and, most definitely, its newspaper. Nearly every week, he published long rants about the coverage, distorting what we had written and accusing us of bias.
Start the Presses: What Nextdoor is actually telling us
About 15 years ago, while the editor of the Burbank Leader and Glendale News-Press, I found myself with a personal online troll. He ran a blog that opined about everything wrong with Burbank, its leaders and, most definitely, its newspaper. Nearly every week, he published long rants about the coverage, distorting what we had written and accusing us of bias.
Start the Presses: Good news in local news
Whenever I tell someone what I do for a living, I almost inevitably get some combination of these responses: * "Oof, that's a tough business." * "I couldn't do what you do." * "People still read newspapers?" My retorts, in order, are usually some variant of the following: * "Sure, but there are few businesses as interesting or as much fun." * "I bet you could. It's mostly a matter of being rigorous and principled in your questions, and being OK with not making a lot of money." * "Yep.
Start the Presses: Good news in local news
Whenever I tell someone what I do for a living, I almost inevitably get some combination of these responses: * "Oof, that's a tough business." * "I couldn't do what you do." * "People still read newspapers?" My retorts, in order, are usually some variant of the following: * "Sure, but there are few businesses as interesting or as much fun." * "I bet you could. It's mostly a matter of being rigorous and principled in your questions, and being OK with not making a lot of money." * "Yep.
Start the Presses: Good news in local news
Whenever I tell someone what I do for a living, I almost inevitably get some combination of these responses: * "Oof, that's a tough business." * "I couldn't do what you do." * "People still read newspapers?" My retorts, in order, are usually some variant of the following: * "Sure, but there are few businesses as interesting or as much fun." * "I bet you could. It's mostly a matter of being rigorous and principled in your questions, and being OK with not making a lot of money." * "Yep.
Start the Presses: Good news in local news
Whenever I tell someone what I do for a living, I almost inevitably get some combination of these responses: * "Oof, that's a tough business." * "I couldn't do what you do." * "People still read newspapers?" My retorts, in order, are usually some variant of the following: * "Sure, but there are few businesses as interesting or as much fun." * "I bet you could. It's mostly a matter of being rigorous and principled in your questions, and being OK with not making a lot of money." * "Yep.
Start the Presses: Good news in local news
Whenever I tell someone what I do for a living, I almost inevitably get some combination of these responses: My retorts, in order, are usually some variant of the following: “Sure, but there are few businesses as interesting or as much fun.” “I bet you could. It’s mostly a matter of being rigorous and principled in your questions, and being OK with not making a lot of money.” “Yep. Honestly, it’s still one of the best ways to understand the world.
Start the Presses: Bring back the Eagle? American Canyon can make it happen
More than 20 years ago, in 2004, Napa Valley Publishing Co. launched the American Canyon Eagle, a weekly newspaper dedicated to the young city at the southern end of Napa County. American Canyon had a little more than 13,000 residents then, roughly half its population today. The city itself was not even a teenager, having incorporated in 1992. The Eagle gave the community something important: its own newspaper. Its own name in the masthead.
Start the Presses: Bring back the Eagle? American Canyon can make it happen
More than 20 years ago, in 2004, Napa Valley Publishing Co. launched the American Canyon Eagle, a weekly newspaper dedicated to the young city at the southern end of Napa County. American Canyon had a little more than 13,000 residents then, roughly half its population today. The city itself was not even a teenager, having incorporated in 1992. The Eagle gave the community something important: its own newspaper. Its own name in the masthead.
Start the Presses: Bring back the Eagle? American Canyon can make it happen
More than 20 years ago, in 2004, Napa Valley Publishing Co. launched the American Canyon Eagle, a weekly newspaper dedicated to the young city at the southern end of Napa County. American Canyon had a little more than 13,000 residents then, roughly half its population today. The city itself was not even a teenager, having incorporated in 1992. The Eagle gave the community something important: its own newspaper. Its own name in the masthead.
Start the Presses: Finding my inner cowboy at Greenhorn Ranch
Dan Evans Dan Evans It turns out I am a reasonably good shot. This came as a surprise to everyone, most of all me. Until recently, I had not fired a gun, ridden a horse or attempted to fly-fish since my abbreviated career in the Boy Scouts. Given that I dropped out at the rather undistinguished rank of First Class, we are not talking about an especially lengthy period of outdoorsmanship.
Start the Presses: Finding my inner cowboy at Greenhorn Ranch
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Start the Presses: Remembering Fran Lemos and her American Canyon legacy
Dan Evans Dan Evans Dressed in a blue button-down shirt and leaning on a cane, Spencer Marshall took the microphone at the Boys & Girls Clubhouse in American Canyon last Saturday. The 83-year-old, who lived next door to Fran Lemos for 34 years, had something to say. "She was the George Washington of American Canyon," Marshall told the crowd. "She was the one that made it happen." Lemos did more than perhaps anyone to make Napa County's southernmost city a community in the fullest sense of the word.
Start the Presses: Remembering Fran Lemos and her American Canyon legacy
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Start the Presses: A concert that gets the volume just right
Dan Evans Dan Evans The sign at the entrance to Napa Yard said the gates would open at 6:30 p.m. It also warned concertgoers not to sneak in early. Looking around at the relaxed crowd at the July 19 Not Loud Concerts Summer Session, I did not sense an imminent rush on the barricades. People chatted, checked their phones and waited patiently for the show to start.
Start the Presses: A concert that gets the volume just right
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Start the Presses: Napa should let Charlie Rossi stay in his home
Dan Evans Dan Evans There is something about all of this that just doesn't sit right. Given the remarkable amount of web traffic, hundreds of comments and reactions on social media on the topic, that seems to be the common response. Rarely do progressives, moderates and conservatives agree on much of anything, but this time around, it seems clear: Let Charlie stay in his home.
Start the Presses: Napa should let Charlie Rossi stay in his home
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Start the Presses: RV there yet?
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Start the Presses: Ladies and gentleman, your award-winning Register and Star!
Dan Evans Dan Evans One of the more curious aspects of the practice of journalism is the tension between its public and private sides. On the one hand, mayors, high-level elected officials and powerful people of all stripes feel compelled to talk to you, to give their side of whatever controversy may be roiling the general populace at that particular moment.
Start the Presses: Ladies and gentleman, your award-winning Register and Star!
One of the more curious aspects of the practice of journalism is the tension between its public and private sides. On the one hand, mayors, high-level elected officials and powerful people of all stripes feel compelled to talk to you, to give their side of whatever controversy may be roiling the general populace at that particular moment.
Start the Presses: Preventative health care is not sexy, but it could save your life
Dan Evans Dan Evans Groggy from the propofol, I blinked awake in the recovery area of Shadelands Advanced Endoscopy in Walnut Creek. The procedure was done, and all that was left was to find out how it all turned out. And, of course, to exchange my blue patterned hospital gown - plenty of room for breeze in the back of that one - for the less revealing clothing in the plastic "patient's belongings" bag on the side of the room. First, though, I needed a moment.
Start the Presses: Preventative health care is not sexy, but it could save your life
Groggy from the propofol, I blinked awake in the recovery area of Shadelands Advanced Endoscopy in Walnut Creek. The procedure was done, and all that was left was to find out how it all turned out. And, of course, to exchange my blue patterned hospital gown — plenty of room for breeze in the back of that one — for the less revealing clothing in the plastic “patient’s belongings” bag on the side of the room. First, though, I needed a moment. “How you feeling?” asked a nurse, peering down at me.
Start the Presses: Musk’s trillion-dollar moment puts California’s local news crisis in stark relief
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Start the Presses: Auction Napa Valley shows the wine industry’s giving spirit in uncertain times
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Start the Presses: Auction Napa Valley shows the wine industry’s giving spirit in uncertain times
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Pebble Beach offers coastal luxury, golf and old-money charm
Down Highway 1, past the strawberry fields and artichoke farms, beyond the ominous — but strangely beautiful — cooling towers of the Moss Landing power plant, lies Pebble Beach, a breathtakingly beautiful and breathtakingly exclusive coastal enclave wedged between Monterey and Carmel-by-the-Sea. It is one of those places that almost doesn’t seem real. The cypress trees look curated. The deer wander around like they’re on payroll.
Start the Presses: Join Napa’s Fourth of July Parade — or the Register’s not-quite-precision drill team
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