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FAIRFIELD — Solano County has a history of projects that have moved forward without the proper permitting – and without following codes, policies or regulations.

Roswell High senior track athlete Malia Dumlao committed to the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque to run under the Lobos banner Wednesday at the Roswell High School little theater.

In the 77 years of post World War II peace we had thought that senseless wars, the wars of an autocrat’s addled mind, were things of the past. The videoed agony of brave Ukraine has jolted the world out of a slumber. We had forgotten what war really is, especially war on civilians. The Syrians know,

Supervisor Jim Spering recently wrote to accuse former council member and DR columnist Jack Batson of “getting it wrong” and being a hypocrite because he opposed using city water for a project outside Fairfield city limits. He referred back to an action on the 2002 Fairfield City Council consent cal

I’ve arrived at long last! The dean of Solano County politics, Jim Spering, has speared me on my panning of the proposed city treatment of SID water for a middle Green Valley project. Skewered! “I want it both ways . . . I’m hypocritical . . . I have “18th century thinking.” Well, heck, I could have

Do you history buffs recall the prelude to World War II, the Spanish Civil War? There, modern fascism fought modern democracy and defeated the democratic republican side. This confirmed, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini said, the inevitability of fascism. Ha! I predict the present war in Ukraine wi

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Jack Batson’s recent opinion piece on Middle Green Valley restarting county “growth wars” is wrong on so many levels it’s hard to find a place to start. Middle Green Valley is an approved county project located in Solano Irrigation District’s service area. SID is attempting to provide safe, cost-eff

Suddenly, we’re in a new, very dangerous Cold War. What can I add that hasn’t been said? Let me try. First, I think we are justified to call Vladimir Putin a war criminal. He is harking back to the way European monarchs acted for the last 500 years or so. But much has changed. We now live in a Wilso

Land use issues are in the news again. The county has petitioned the city of Fairfield to negotiate a deal in which Fairfield would treat Solano Irrigation District water to make it potable, then sell it back to SID, which would then provide it to a Middle Green Valley housing project in the county.