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Mashup At The Fairgrounds
Max Romeo, who will appear at the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, live in Brazil in 2012. Courtesy Thiago Nascimento. The Boonville fairground’s biggest annual event returns this weekend – the...
View ArticleThe Press Democrat’s Labor Fantasies
Last week the Santa Rosa Press Democrat ran a story titled, “Winegrowers facing labor hurdles as harvest season approaches.” The story began, “Grape growers and farmers throughout the state are facing...
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No County For Old Men
Harold Moore Fifty years ago you put hands on Harold Moore at your peril. The old guy still has the Popeye forearms of a working man, but he’s 80 years old, a law abiding senior citizen who has raised...
View ArticleRiver Views
We’re only a year removed from Matt Cain’s perfect game. Certainly legions of Giants fans would say this was the finest performance ever by a major league pitcher. Older aficionados with a sense of the...
View ArticleSerendipity
I’ve lived in or just outside of Fayetteville, North Carolina, Annville, Pennsylvania, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Clarksville, Tennessee, Geyserville, Yorkville, Boonville and, now, Prineville, Oregon....
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California’s Great Prison Experiment
Triple bunks in a California prison. On February 22, 1998, Pete Gallagher arrived at Building 13 at Solano State Prison in Vacaville, California. It was Gallagher’s thirteenth year behind bars, and...
View ArticleLing Ch’i Ching
“Marvelous things approach the gate door.” — Ling Ch’i Ching One of my great pleasures is to look back over the course of events that brought me to my current relationship with a beloved place or...
View ArticleBaz Luhrmann’s Bombastic Gatsby
Like an obnoxiously drunk, loudmouthed, long-winded, overly-pleased-with-himself, vacuously ostentatious guest who refuses to leave the party even though it’s long been over, Baz Luhrmann’s The Great...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Before we get into the ‘meat and carrion’ of the column, may I just remind you once again of a key guideline for a happy and...
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The Bogus Investigation Of Officer Guydan
The Fort Bragg Police Department has conducted a bogus investigation in response to formal complaints filed against Officer Craig Guydan; a whitewash investigation that could be interpreted as a...
View ArticleProhibition ’37 — Woodward Won’t Fold
Continued from last week’s AVA, the 1937 Congressional hearing at which marijuana prohibition was discussed prior to enactment. The witness is William WOODWARD, MD, representing the American Medical...
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Mendocino County Today: June 20, 2013
HUMBOLDT: Life on America’s Marijuana Frontier—A Book Destined to be a Classic Look at this County and Cannabis by Kym Kemp (Courtesy LostCoastOutpost.com) For those who have replaced copy after copy...
View ArticleValley People
NO DETAILS as we went to press Tuesday, but a female pedestrian was struck by a car in downtown Boonville about 10am. She was taken by ambulance to Ukiah.Subscribe now to access our entire site—only...
View ArticleOff The Record
IN THE GRAND TRADITION of imperial fraud, American style, Obama will provide weapons to the Syrian rebels, many of whom are Taliban-oriented fanatics. Within our lifetimes, we’ve had the Gulf of Tonkin...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
WHAT ARE THE ADVENTISTS DOING TO HOWARD HOSPITAL? Editor, What a difference a year makes! Howard Hospital, what has happened to the patient/customer friendly small town hospital we had? Back in 2011, I...
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Mendocino County Today: June 21, 2013
THE MENDOCINO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE has formally identified the victim of a shooting near a Spy Rock Road pot garden as Upper Lake resident Hugo Olea-Lopez, 23. Olea-Lopez was found dead of a single...
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Mendocino County Today: June 22, 2013
ABOUT 50 BYPASS PROTESTERS began to impede wick drain installation in a field (aka former wetland) along the northern end of the bypass construction zone on Wednesday. The California Highway Patrol...
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Mendocino County Today: June 23, 2013
WHO SAYS we don’t benefit from the casinos? The Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund, with a committee comprised of local elected officials looking on, has awarded $140,772.33 to all eight Mendocino...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: June 24, 2013
RASTAFARIANS here, Rastafarians there, Rastafarians everywhere in Boonville this weekend. Overall impression is of shuffling, listless people, most of them young but enervated-seeming. Thanatoids. The...
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Mendocino County Today: June 25, 2013
WILLITS POLICE are investigating the death of Danny Lawrason, 77, found dead in his home on East San Francisco Avenue on Sunday June 16th. A press release from the police was ambiguous. It said that...
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