When I sat down this morning to write my column on my laptop, the day’s Google Doodle greeted me. There was a colorful tableau of…
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On Wednesday South Carolina’s Supreme Court temporarily halted the execution by firing squad of Richard Moore, a 57-year-old Black man who has been on death…
Sonoma County has now almost eliminated the need for disabled parking spaces in front of highly special needed spaces. The County has advertised that Covid-19…
On laundry day, the first settlers in Anderson Valley would fetch buckets of water from the spring or the hand-dug well in the back yard.…
What remains of a once fine (and big) record collection sits upstairs, and even in its current emaciated state will leave dents in the floor…
A recent experience with a buyer brought to the fore several issues around home purchasing that I think are worth sharing. One of these has…
Candidate Nicole Glentzer: The Anderson Valley Advertiser asked me to respond in writing to the question, “What is not happening at MCOE under the auspices…
Poetry, exhausted by the heavy burdens of sensitive emotions conjured up by dreamy sentimentalists, today is mostly found on dusty shelves in old libraries, none…
I never met him, never even saw him, though my formative years in the Bay Area were inextricably entwined with Charles McCabe. McCabe didn’t occupy…