Democrat correspondcent From pastels to framing to fine art, RockyÕs Art and Framing has everything an artist could want. Located at 384 Placerville Drive and at 404 Main St., RockyÕs has been serving the community since 1983. ÒWe have everything here,Ó said owner Magdi Sefain. ÒWe give student discounts and artist discounts. When youÕve been [...]

Democrat automotive columnist Diesels are all the rage and BMW has cooked up a doozy for their X5 SUV. They like to call it an AAV or all activity vehicle. Regardless of its nomenclature, it does a remarkable job. Now in its larger second generation since 2007, the new X5 xDrive35d is a confusing name [...]

Editor ÒYou can call this a ÔselloutÕ or say that Wall Street sold out its principles in the 1980s and later to make a buck. I would tell you as someone who knows these guys, they never had principles to sell out in the first place.Ó Ñ Teddy Forstmann Ò…more than $13 trillion in household [...]

It looks like itÕs cÕest fini for the woebegone shell of the old HangmanÕs Tree Bar and the Herrick Building, which once housed the P&M Market and later ZoeÕs Restaurant. The only architectural attributes of the box-like building is a cheesy mural Ñ probably done with lead-based house paints Ñ and a tin ceiling molding [...]

Sometimes it feels like America is being held hostage to a strange ideology. First, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder wants to try the 9/11 mastermind in New York City, with city officials there learning about in the press. What an economic disaster that will be, not to mention giving Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a stage upon [...]

El Dorado County Community Health Center EDITOR: I read Ms. Eleanor NormanÕs letter with some amount of sadness and frustration. Her problems with her own health and the costs of supporting her recent illness are very common, and it is frustrating for me to hear of yet another person who now carries a very large [...]

Special to the Democrat Here in the dark winter skies of the foothills, a pearly ribbon still casts a soft glow in the night sky. Known by a myriad of names over millennia past, it is known as the Milky Way. With the birth of telescopic astronomy, thousands of faint objects were discovered in the [...]