Avoid Napa, California Like The Plague

By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

Napa has the worst pothole-strewn roads in America. A California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer told me that the roads in Mexico are better. They are an accident—or hundreds of them—waiting to happen; and motor vehicles are damaged each and every day. During the balance of our lives, such roads will never be "fixed," all the while their government overseers draw fancy bloated salaries.[2]

Its prominent Catholic Church, St. Apollinaris, has two "gay" priests who are incompetent, and another one from Africa who doesn't speak English. Like the Pedophile Pope Leo who should be arrested and imprisoned when he sets foot outside of the Vatican[3], the youngest priest believes that cellphones are evil. He's living somewhere in the 1400s.

Napa's near-mythical reputation as a global wine-producing center is in tatters—which has undergirded Napa's economy—as wine consumption has dropped dramatically. The once-heralded Napa Valley Wine Train is old and decrepit. Apparently young Americans are not consuming wine. Meanwhile, there are a bevy of pot dispensaries; and motor vehicle drivers are allowed to drive under the influence, which constitutes even more accidents waiting to happen.

The area's power company, PG&E, has polluted the Napa River; and apartments next to its fenced-in pollution site are scheduled to be torn down. Those who fish in the river do so at their peril. Again, it's an accident—or death—waiting to happen.[4] And the nearby-Napa Library is a mecca for mentally-challenged homeless, who periodically are removed from the premises when they constitute threats to men, women and child visitors.

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[1] Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass). See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6 and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/ He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at The Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service). Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams. He can be contacted directly at [email protected]

[2] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/theres-a-county-in-california-where-the-government-officials-should-be-jailed/ ("There’s A County In California Where The Government Officials Should Be Jailed")

[3] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/the-world-does-not-need-a-woke-pope/ ("The World Does Not Need A Woke Pope")

[4] See, e.g., https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/about/corporate-responsibility-and-sustainability/napa-mgp-closeout.pdf