One disadvantage of the Clearlake Observer-American only being published once weekly is that it gets behind the news and editorial curve.

An example is their April 22 edition which ran a month-old letter to the editor from Ed Robey regarding some comments I’d made back in March about the Clearlake City Council's handling of the decision on Provinsalia.

Ed’s letter and my responses to it were plastered all over the editorial pages of most of Lake County’s news publications for a couple of weeks. There were back and forth blogs from others supporting one or the other of us. I talked about the “dispute” on my KPFZ radio show on April 11 and listeners called and gave their opinions.

Mr. Robey and I communicated by email and finally had a brief and cordial conversation in front of Clearlake City Hall. Ed and I shook hands and I believe both of us were happy to move on. I am looking forward to working together with him on the many issues in which we are political allies.

It was therefore a disappointing experience to have the Clearlake Observer-American dredge the whole thing up again by publishing Ed’s original letter on April 22, so long after the fact and so long after the matter had been put to rest.

It would have been better for everyone if their editor had just let this stale story die a natural death.

Herb Gura lives in Clearlake Oaks.