Phil Smoley

Lake County lost one of it''s great movers and shakers when Randy Ridgel passed away Friday evening. A lot of people knew of Randy through his countless letters to the...

The nature of the Neasham case presents a problem. There are laws that prohibit any form of discrimination because of race, color, religion and age. So unless someone is determined...

In response to Patrick Lambert''s "Disrespectful of sponsors" regarding controversial questions some of the contestants randomly picked at the Miss Lake County pageant (should Ronald McDonald retire, and should President...

Harold Riley responded ("Research before criticism") to my response ("A question of facts") by correctly stating that Nixon ordered a brief incursion into Cambodia in 1970. He was attempting to...

I don''t mean to get in the middle of a classic Ridgel vs. Riley debate, but a fact check is in order. Riley asks: "But wasn''t there another president who...

I wanted to take a moment to report on our results and observations at he Home and Garden Expo at the Lake County Fairgrounds this past weekend. While turnout was...

The second installment of the Redwood Empire Civil War Round Table met last week at the Tallman Hotel in Upper Lake. Twenty people attended the event to hear Zane Jensen''s...

I am excited about the level of debate regarding the causes of the Civil War we are seeing, including Tom Quinn''s recent "Problem with Analysis." Quinn makes some excellent points,...

The Sesquicentennial of the Civil War is upon us, and we can expect a lot more conversation in the coming months regarding the causes and effects of that catastrophic war....