by The AVA
We recommend NO votes on all incumbents, beginning with Jerry Brown who, after all his years in government, is an incumbent of the ultimate officeholding type, much like Wes Chesbro and Mike Thompson here on the Northcoast, the people who have gotten us where we are. The only difference between Brown and Whitman is that [...]
by The AVA
CHANGE TO HOLLY To the Editor: It’s Time for a Change in the 3rd District Four years ago at election time, an old friend said to me, “Johnny’s (Pinches) OK because he will listen to you and bend.” Is that so? One year ago, almost two-thirds of Mendocino County voters turned down Measure A, (rezoning [...]
The Kent State Truth Tribunal this weekend heard testimony from forensic audio scientist Stuart Allen that establishes clear orders to shoot live ammunition at unarmed protesting students by the Ohio National Guard. The tape also reveals startling evidence of an altercation with distinct gunshots from a separate weapon fired directly prior to the National Guard’s [...]
My grandmother was as happy to see me as I was to see her. We hugged and kissed each other and we both cried a little. But after we settled down and talked for a while I could see that her situation was worse now than when I had left. She had lost her job [...]
by Kathy Borst
(I don’t know where the AVA gets all those great quotes, but a couple in here made me think of them, though perhaps you’ve seen and used them already.) It was on this day in 1964 that Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, which he turned down. A week earlier, Sartre had [...]
If the Giants had played host to the final two games of the playoffs, the National League Pennant series might still hang in the balance because of the deluge that swamped northern California over the weekend. On Saturday night the two youngest boys and I huddled with our soaking, skunked dogs around the radio in [...]
by Steve Sparks
I met with Pat (he much prefers that name to Bruce) at his house in the lower reaches of the Valley’s western hills overlooking Anderson Valley Way. After giving me the “5c tour” of the property, as he put it, he very kindly made me some lunch – delicious chicken cacciatore and garlic bread and [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Well, has it been wet enough for you? The ‘experts’ in the world of weather forecasting grossly underestimated this past weekend’s rain, which for long periods of time was torrential. I don’t know why they bother. I just ask Dave Gowan at [...]
by Steve Sparks
Last Monday afternoon (Oct 18th), the team traveled to face the Wolverines of Willits for the final non-league game of the season in what would be a stern test against a team in second place in their own league. Inter-league games are important in deciding postseason rankings for the play-offs at which point all the [...]
by Leah Collins
After more than a month, I’m finding Ethiopia to be more and more complicated and vastly more difficult to understand and furthermore explain, but I will do my best to give my impressions. As for my work at Mission of Charities Home for the Dying and Destitute, there is never a dull moment, and don’t [...]
