by The AVA
KEEP THE CODE Editor, Something Wicked This Way Comes is, of course, the famous line from the Shakespearean play Macbeth, which forewarns of an impending ominous, dangerous and traitorous entity. Fast-forward from the seventeenth century, to a real threat we now potentially face in Mendocino County, which is perhaps no less insidious or alarming; with [...]
by Todd Walton
Marcia and I were walking on Big River Beach yester day, the wet sand firm underfoot—Big River swollen and muddy from the recent deluge, a light rain falling.
When, in the summer of 1953, my family tipped our hats to our Chicago home, piled into our Kaiser four-door and drove the 2,400 mile stretch of US Route 66 to our new home in the City of Angels, the little boy living next door was exactly my age. Happy for the companionship, we became [...]
Sick with disappointment that I missed the Tin-Tin movie showing in Eureka, I had to settle for Obama’s State of the Union and Thursday’s Republican debate in Jacksonville. Await a presidential State of the Union address with keen anticipation? It’s like saying one looks forward to taking a niece to the Nutcracker. The last time [...]
Scattered through the mountains surrounding Anderson Valley are many natural openings that had been in grass mostly since man came to the Valley. Over the last hundred years or so the open land has been increased by slashing and burning and many a man nowadays wishes they hadn’t done it for they, in their quest [...]
Last fall I wrote a short piece, ‘Passing Strange,’ about the detention of my son, Franklin, by Customs and Immigration officials at Heathrow Airport. Franklin had flown to the United Kingdom in early September to interview for a job in Africa with a representative of Oxfam International. For reasons still unknown, the Customs officials denied [...]
by The AVA
FOX NEWS and related rightwing blowhards aside, during WWII the national debt was more than 100% of Gross Domestic Product, which it will probably be again soon. To beat back crippling debt, FDR, a member of the One Percent in the days the One Percent believed in at least a modicum of noblesse oblige, raised [...]
by The AVA
POINT OF FACT Editor: Although I cannot speak to the incident regarding a phone call to John Coate as I was not present, the procedures of the Board of Directors of MCPB follows strict Robert’s rules and public comment on the agenda is limited to just that, public comment. Ms. Dawn was not the only [...]
Newt Gingrich is a one-man, made-in-America melting pot. Here’s a committed devotee of tooth-and-claw capitalism, vultures perched on both shoulders, advocate of 8-year old black children working as janitors — campaigning with a pro-worker film of which John Reed or Ken Loach would be proud, paid for by a rabidly anti-union billionaire who thinks Israel [...]
by Cody Hoover
We boarded an airplane at San Jose’s Mineta Airport in December, taxied down the runway until the nose pointed to the sky and we lifted up over Silicon Valley. I watched the mountains through the small window. Soon we were over the central valley, the white- topped Sierras, The Great Basin and the Rockies in [...]
