Letters to the Editor

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Advice for Sunkett, Duggles on V’Canto v. Green Door, Nader on health care and much more…

Letters to the Editor

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AN ATHEIST’S REPLY
Editor:
I always enjoy reading the letters of Lee Simon from Far’N’Away Farm in Virginia.
His letter in the February 24 AVA was on the mark. His criticism of religion in general, and the Catholic Church in particular, echoed my comments in a series of e-mails I recently exchanged with my friend and running partner, [...]

About That Bitch Thing

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To the Editor:
Regarding the article about me recently.
First off, let me ask for a subscription while I’m in prison. Dennis Day, San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin CA 94974.
And let me ask you to print this on my defense to hear the other side of the story. That stuff you said in the paper was [...]

Fascists for Fish

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The Marine Life Protection Act Initiative has come to to the North Coast, skirting the laws and making up the rules as they go.  The MLPAI obeys the law only as they see fit, all the while being held accountable to none that they break.  It’s the opposite of real democracy, where the will of [...]

Eco Libs & Eco Grain

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I was reading National Geographic this morning and noticed an ad the featured something called Eco Grain. “What in tarnation is Eco Grain?” the headline said.
Well, according to the ad, it is grown on special farms in Idaho “thanks to a more sustainable farming approach.”
Sounds good to me, I thought, I might get some of [...]

Letters to the Editor

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CHRISTY BOWS OUT

Dear Community,

To all the People of Mendocino 5th District Community,

It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you all that I’m withdrawing from the 2010 Fifth District Supervisor race. My reasons being family, financial, and timing.

It was already a stretch for me to run, with two young children and [...]

Dancing in the Dark on Low Gap Road

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An Open Letter To “The Supes”:
The Board of Supervisors (affectionately known as THE SUPES) called a special session on Monday Feb 22nd  with only 24 hours notice put surreptitiously on the internet on a sleepy Sunday morning. The topic was whether they wanted a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to run the county, as  they have, [...]

Jurors Rights

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Editor:
The trial jury created by our Constitution is a judicial body with more power than Congress, the President, or even the Supreme Court. Judges frequently say the “issue of law” is for them to determine, and instruct the jury to rule only on the fact of whether a defendant broke the law. But a jury [...]

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A DEEP BOW
Editor & Reed Whittemore,
“I hear the loved survivors tell
How naught from death could save,
Till every sound appears a knell
And every spot a grave.”
Wrote Abraham Lincon, at 37.
Then, decades later, William Faulkner wrote, “The past is never dead, it isn’t even past.”
I bow my head, United States of America, to each citizen in Iraq [...]

Letters to the Editor

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WHO’S THAT POUNDING?
To the Editor:
On January 28th at about 2:15pm I was taking a shower. About 15 minutes later there was a loud pounding at my front door. I heard some yelling from men. I said, “wait just a minute.”
As I came down the hall, into the front room there were four men in my [...]