We will be covering the presidential and congressional elections, the daily political war in the Washington beltway, the country's ongoing fiscal crisis, the influence of big money, and all the faults and foibles of those in power.

I finally unboxed this media player from Noontec that has been on the shelf for a couple of weeks ago. Noontec called this as MovieDock A6 II NAS Media Station — basically a type of high-definition audio and video player that you can also hook into a local network as a full NAS (Network Attached Storage), hence the name.

All Napa City-County Libraries will be closed on Saturday, Feb. 18, for an upgrade to the public online catalog.