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Feds Respond To Lodi Terror Conviction Retrial Request
Houses Are More Affordable, But Who’s Buying?
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Local Zinfandel Partnership
As any local winemaker will tell you, they go to
great lengths to produce the
right Zinfandel. "I've been fooling around with
zinfandel my whole career. I was a cabernet sauvignon guy, too, but all of us cab guys want to try our hand at
zinfandel," says Randle Johnson, a consulting winemaker with the Hess
Collection. Zinfandel, it turns out, presents challenges even for veteran
winemakers.
It's seen as the All-American grape, brought to California around
1849 by Gold Rush miners who turned to agriculture. But critics say it has never earned full respect and it
will never make a truly elegant wine or be a "noble" grape like the
cabernet sauvignon. Johnson. Johnson and his employer are looking to
change that. The Hess
Collection will now be working with about 15 independent growers in Amador and
Mendocino Counties to produce 15,000 cases a year of Zinfandel. The
partnership is seen as beneficial for both parties, who want to see Zinfandel gain
in respect and, of course, sales, in the wine market.
Dairy Prices Soar
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"Pony-Tail Bandit" Strikes Banks in 3 Different States
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Cindy Sheehan, the "Peace Mom" No Longer Leader of the Anti-War Movement
Cindy
Sheehan, the "peace mom" who made headlines in 2005 by staging a
marathon protest outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch, announced on Memorial Day that
she no longer wants to be seen as a leader of the anti-war movement. In
a 1,245-word letter posted on the liberal DailyKos blog, Sheehan said her campaign to end the war in
Iraq had strained her relationship with her remaining children, cost her a
marriage and left her nearly penniless. "This is my resignation letter as the
'face' of the American anti-war movement," Sheehan wrote. "I am going to take whatever I
have left and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving
children and try to regain some of what I have lost."
Emergency Declaration With Destruction of I-80 Interchange in the Bay Area
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JPD Looking for a Stolen Car
Another Presidential Candidate: Radio Talk Show Host Says Maybe
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National Study Warns On Teenage Binge Drinking
According to a new study
released this month binge drinking is common among high school students in the
United States and is strongly associated with sexual activity, violence, and
other risky behaviors. The
study, entitled Binge Drinking and Associated Health Risk Behaviors Among High
School Students, has been released by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) and published in the January 2007 issue of Pediatrics.
The study analyzed data from the 15,214 high school students who completed the 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. CDC scientists found 45 percent of the students reported past-month alcohol consumption, and 64 percent of students who drank reported binge drinking (defined as having five or more drinks of alcohol in a row).