by The AVA
CRACKPOTS, AN ANALYSIS Dear Lee Simon, Thanks for your scientific response to my conjecture about possible after-life scenarios. My father was an atheist medical doctor and his religion was Science, so reading your letter was like reading old gospel. I wasn’t going to respond, but then I read the following line and thought I would [...]
by The AVA
October 24, 2011 — Mendocino County Assessor-Clerk Recorder, Susan M. Ranochak announced: “Two errors were made by my office and discovered after publication within the Measure A section of the Sample Ballot for the November 8, 2011 Special District Election. Measure A is the one-eighth cent sales tax increase measure being voted on throughout Mendocino [...]
Denied post mortem imagery of Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki, the world now has at its disposal photographs of Muammar Qaddafi, dispatched with a bullet to the head after being wounded by NATO’s ground troops outside Sirte. Did the terminal command, Finish Him Off, come via cell phone from the US State Department whose [...]
For years I always joked that my blue heeler bitch was going to leave me for a guy who had a pick-up truck. I was only half-joking, though, and always harbored a deep anxiety that it could easily happen — any time some friend with a truck stopped by the farm in Boonville to pick [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. I’m sure most of you will have been fascinated by the news story that a US woman had drugged her estranged husband, tied him to a bed and cut off his penis. A police spokesman in California said, “The female cut off [...]
Despite being mired in a poor run of three draws and a loss -their first defeat of the season coming ten days ago against Roseland Prep, the Panthers still had a chance of winning the league, or certainly of getting a top seeding in the post season, if they were to finish strongly in the [...]
by Steve Sparks
For the next two weeks, our local interviews will adopt a different theme. I shall be interviewing the five candidates who are seeking election to the three open positions on the AV School Board. I will be asking each of them for their opinions and thoughts on some of the issues they will face if [...]
by Ken Hurst
It is clear now that Jim Harbaugh is an enthusiastic and excellent coach. Perhaps, though, that is an understatement. He is an exuberant coach who is smart and crafty as a gridiron tactician and generous with his affection for his players. But he can be very tough with a player when he feels it is [...]
by John Wester
Come Fly Away the marquee read, A sign below said, eat the rich, Or, taxiderm them, another said, Ol’ Blue Eyes began to twitch To see the anger of the youth Be led by those who speak the truth. And like Dylan might have said, When you live outside the law You must be [...]
by Todd Walton
Marcia and I both have web sites and use the inter web for research, marketing, entertainment, and commu nication with the world outside of Mendocino. Her office and mine are separated by a wall through which we occasionally shout at each other, though we can never be certain what the other person is shouting about until one or the other of us rises from his or her chair and walks around the corner to find out; or we send each other emails.
