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STILL KEEPING THE CODE Editor, Keep The Code, Inc., a non-profit Corporation of Mendocino County citizens, has hired legal representation in litigation, challenging the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors’ certification of the Environmental Impact Report for the Harris Quarry Expansion Project (“EIR”), which allows tripling of the rate of aggregate extraction at the quarry and [...]
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NO MORE KENT STATES President Obama: Kent State Letter from Allison’s Family Kent State Peace May 1, 2012 President Barack H. Obama, The White House Washington DC 20500 Dear President Obama: Last week my mother Doris Krause urged me to write a personal letter to help you understand the May 4th Kent State Massacre from [...]
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To Honorable Judge Ellis: I am writing to inform you that I was coerced into signing the plea agreement. This is my motion to withdraw my plea agreement, entered on the 29th of March 2012. I move to have a hearing on the illegal coerced plea. I also move to represent myself and have counsel [...]
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BRAUTIGAN: WARTS & ALL Editor, Make no mistake about it: I love Richard Brautigan. I really love Richard Brautigan. He was as much a part of my early literary training at the Writing Seminars Department at the Johns Hopkins University as anyone I can think of. Brautigan was out-of-this-world creative — otherworldly, innocent, child-like, fanciful, [...]
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BAJA NEWS Editor, Our next trip was to travel from Baja Norte to Baja Sur in search of the Grey Whale. These whales travel from their summer feeding grounds in the Bering Sea to the warm water lagoons in Mexico to bear their young. The one way journey covers from 5000 to 6,000 miles. There [...]
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THE END OF ENLIGHTENMENT Editor, I’d like, with your permission, to respond to two letters and one article in the AVA of 4 April 2012. 1. To Lee Simon’s letter, “Three Questions”: Yes, good brother, there are many who would like to overturn not The New Deal, but The Enlightenment. Not long ago, my old [...]
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CHRIS DIAZ’S COERCED PLEA “They had me locked in seg… coerced into doing things I would not normally have done.” — Chris Diaz, letter from Brownwood Texas Jail The new development in the Chris Diaz case is that he has now decided he wants to withdraw his plea because he was “scared and coerced… into [...]
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CHRIS DIAZ UPDATE Texas marijuana defendant, Chris Diaz, age 22, in poor health from advanced asthma most of his young life, is a legitimate medical patient in California, but a felony-level heinous criminal in Brownwood Texas. Facing 5-99 years prison for 14 grams of hash he uses as asthma medicine, Diaz took a three-year intent [...]
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BOONVILLE HOMEBOY Dear Editor, I want to thank the good home town newspaper of Boonville for keeping me informed on what is going on around Mendo County. I love it when I can open up the AVA and read about someone I haven’t seen or heard about in many many years. I’m currently serving a [...]
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A QUIZ FOR CHEESE-BRO Editor, “Hales Grove” Road Number one. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of its abandonment, 1962. Several years ago I read a book entitled “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” by Thomas Frank. It is a pretty discouraging look at Kansas, a “conservative” stronghold. Right-wing religious racketeers have teamed up with the many cryptofascists [...]
