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Summer Heat Wave Impacts Local Farmers’ Market

By Malia Wollan, Special to the Planet
Tuesday September 26, 2006
The record-breaking, triple-digit heat wave that rolled through California this summer did untold harm to the state’s $31.8 billion agricultural industry—cooking walnuts in their shells, killing dairy cows and wilting tender greens in the field. -more-

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Tuesday September 26, 2006

Reader Commentaries

Commentary: In Defense of the Pope

By Carol Gesbeck DeWitt
Tuesday September 26, 2006
Pope Benedict XVI may be too old and conservative for what is best for the Catholic Church. However, the undeserved bad media coverage and misinterpretation of his out of context comments are appalling. Most of the media is sound-biting the controversy into a wider spreading of unfortunately horrible publicity that does not present the facts of the situation, only furthering the damage. Peace is what the world needs more of, not inflaming violence and those who want to escalate it. -more-

Commentary: Zionism, Judaism and the Promised Land

By Carl Shames
Tuesday September 26, 2006
I greatly appreciate the forum you have provided for airing viewpoints on a very contentious set of issues, and the effort you made in a recent editorial with regard to anti-Semitism. Nevertheless, difficult problems remain that must be brought to light. Before I go further: My own background is a left-wing, non-Zionist Jew. -more-

Commentary: Attack on Mayor Was Misguided

By Don Jelinek
Tuesday September 26, 2006
Randy Shaw’s long attack on the record of Mayor Bates was a study in strange contradictions and outright errors. I’ll just take a few moments to point out a few of them. -more-

Commentary: Golden Gate Fields Pushes for Casino, Mall

By Robert Cheasty
Tuesday September 26, 2006
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Letter to the Editor: Sierra Club Position

Tuesday September 26, 2006
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