In Search Of Bach’s Brain
This week I had the pleasure of visiting the editorial offices of the Last Newspaper in America, the Anderson Valley Advertiser, having not been there for a few years. Amongst the cluttered...
View ArticleMean Spirits
“Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the control over your dearest interests has passed...
View ArticleProhibition ’37: The IRS Agent Job Creation Act
The hearing at which marijuana prohibition was discussed by Congress in 1937, continued from last week’s AVA. The witness, Joseph B. Hertzfeld of the Philadelphia Seed Co., testified that “Hempseed is...
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River Views
A recent billboard in New Jersey. I know you’ve all been wondering, what do Assata Shakur and Jackie Robinson have in common? No, Assata Shakur is not a lefthanded pitcher with the Cincinnati Reds....
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And for a change, how about we get straight into the Public Service Announcements? Calendars and pens at the ready. #341. The...
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Postcard From The End Of America: Oakland
Photo by Linh Dinh. Other people’s lives come fluttering to us in the tiniest fragments, and these we gather, when we bother to, into an incoherent jumble of impressions we pass off as knowledge....
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Mendocino County Today: May 30, 2013
DAN HAMBURG, chairman of the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, says he’s suing Mendocino County over the Sheriff’s stated intention to both file misdemeanor charges and disinter the late Mrs....
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
ELBOW-TO-ELBOW GUN LAWS Editor, I heard the NRA leader in Texas on radio today and realized how prevalent mental disorders are. This guy is an obsessive, compulsive guy and not a good listener either....
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Mendocino County Today: May 31, 2013
CHRISTOPHER LASCH could have used Mendocino County as a study population for his pivotal “Culture of Narcissism” where narcissists comprise the majority of our population. In another of his books, I...
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Mendocino County Today: June 1, 2013
THE GRAND JURY has taken a close look at food and nutrition at the County Jail and Juvenile Hall. In 1996 I spent a couple of weeks inside on a contempt charge conjured by DA Massini and her judicial...
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Mendocino County Today: June 2, 2013
LAST AUGUST 30 the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department issued the following press release with a certain amount of local hoopla: ON AUGUST 30, 2012 Mendocino County Sheriffs Deputies were dispatched...
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Mendocino County Today: June 3, 2013
GRATIFYING to see Point Arena squeeze by visiting powerhouse Ferndale in a North Coast Section playoff game at Point Arena two Saturdays ago. Justin Sundstrom slid across home plate with the winning...
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Mendocino County Today: June 4, 2013
SUPERVISOR HAMBURG has filed a damages claim against the County of Mendocino. The Supervisor and his attorney aren’t talking, and County Counsel Tom Parker will only confirm that the claim has been...
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CalTrans, The Movie
Martin Katz & Tara Dragani “Our criminal justice system is America’s only working railroad.” — Judge Justin Ravitz, Detroit. * * * When the first tree sitters protesting the Willits Bypass were...
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The Greenwood Arch
The Greenwood Arch Fifty or so Valleyites showed up last Wednesday evening to look at the to-be-replaced Philo-Greenwood Road bridge. The first-hand walk-through at the bridge was followed by a...
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Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. It’s going to get very warm. I could be wrong of course, and my weather guru Dave Gowan is no longer around these parts to...
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How CalTrans Sold The Willits Bypass
In recent months, a few examples of what State Sen. Joel Anderson (R-Alpine) has referred to as the California Department of Transportation’s “continued pattern of abuse, theft and mismanagement” have...
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Mendocino County Today: June 5, 2013
AS OF 3PM Tuesday afternoon, firefighters were having a heckuva time knocking back a grasslands fire in the area of milemarker 39, Yorkville. Breaking: The fire was knocked down shortly before 5pm...
View ArticleParis
Worst of all — although there can be some pretty bad among the rest — is the travel. Specifically, the airports and airplanes. The insanely long “security” lines are now even longer, as personnel has...
View ArticleRod & Gun
During my years in Anderson Valley, which began in the late 1950s and continued to the late 1980s, the most popular local outdoor recreation was fishing and hunting. Camping and backpacking were my...
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