If you haven't driven through Boonville lately, it's time for a field trip. New buildings, old buildings with fresh paint and enticing facades, art galleries, an upscale "farm" store, the Hotel, and some good places to eat and taste wine line Boonville's "main street" along Highway 128.

“Ms. Ceja,” the maitre d’ said, “is at the Queen’s Table.”

For the first time ever, all Bordeaux varietals are together. Yorkville Cellars holiday set is now only place on Earth with all Bordeaux wines in one boxed set, making the perfect wine gift.

Wall Street Journal | Jim Carlton | Nov 20, 2009

BERKELEY, Calif. -- Students occupied a building Friday on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, in an escalation of protests over large fee increases at UC campuses statewide that echoed the unrest here during the 1960s.

Daily Californian | Chris Carrassi | 18 Nov, 2009

BERKELEY, California — Amid chants of "no cuts, no fees," about 50 union workers took up their signs on Sproul Plaza beginning at 5 a.m. to protest an expected 32 percent student fee hike at Wednesday's UC Board of Regents meeting.

Washington Post | John Amick | 15 Nov, 2009

Recognizing that the potential instability of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government remains a main obstacle to an effective American strategy in the region, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today touted broad accountability procedures in Afghanistan that will aim to combat corruption.