Politicians and pundits often tell us that if we raise taxes, we will kill business growth and plunge into a new depression. Is that so? If you look for proof that this works, you will discover that only one study was ever conducted, and it was inconclusive.

As summer vacation rapidly approaches, many of us are planning to travel on commercial aircraft. It has long been known that, with air travel, there is a risk of forming blood clots in the legs, a condition called deep vein thrombosis. Fortunately, this is not very common during travel, but there are other situations that place a patient at risk for DVT that I will also discuss.

When someone asks me how my life is going, I say, “I can’t complain.”

SLV Rotary Club

Valley Gardens hole in one

Noah Calvin Soule was born at 8:31 a.m. April 26, 2011, to Shannon Noelle Nerli and Jeffrey Calvin Soule of Ben Lomond. He was delivered at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz, weighing 9 pounds, 11 ounces.

Saturday, May 28