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Valley People

ARTISTIC COMMENT on medical marijuana dispensaries found in downtown Boonville.

Letters To The Editor

PONTIFICATING DISGRACES To the Editor: We’ve all seen movies about the crimes and evils concocted in corporate and political boardrooms, most of the time based on agendas cooked up behind closed doors. We’re all a…

Off The Record

THE JACKALS of the local media, especially at the big-toothed Press Democrat, are always happy to see pot raids on the locally prominent, especially the locally prominent they politically oppose. But one would think the…

Valley People

IN THE MEDIA clamor surrounding the Aaron Bassler manhunt, Robert Pinoli frequently appeared on television and radio. Articulate and always on point, Pinoli, manager and part owner of the Skunk Train, is the son of…

Letters To The Editor

UNTHINKABLE BEDFELLOWS Editor, The headline for Debra Keipp’s letter last week (AVA, 9/21/2011) could more accurately have been “Hallucinatory Bedfellows.” Miss Keipp seems to have a ten-year repeating pattern (like a mental stutter) of public…

Welcome To Hell

Dear Editor, Tehachapi State Prison. Thanks so much for the subscription the last eight months. It's really helped keep me in touch with the outside world and my mind off my daily struggles behind bars.…

Valley People

WHOEVER started the flattering rumor that the old ambulance barn has been remodeled certainly has a lot of gall. This individual passed the misinformation along to my editor who inserted it in my report of…

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