Jose Luis Gonzalez told his family he was going hunting. He didn’t tell his family he was going hunting for marijuana. Gonzalez, 34, was a non-violent hunter. He went hunting marijuana without a gun, and…
Posts published by “Bruce Anderson”
Put yourselves in the shoes of Jeff and Patti Winnie, parents, working people, long-time residents of Willits, property owners, no criminal history. One day about six weeks ago the Winnies' 18-year-old daughter Monica brought her…
Official Mendocino County is awfully slow to adjust to contemporary realities, as the startling ordeal of a gay Ukiah man named Marc Tosca illustrates. In December of 1990, Tosca and his late partner, Harry Kirkpatrick,…
They'd known each other all the way back to their home country of Mexico, and had crossed the border together a decade before. In the Anderson Valley they'd worked together in the vineyards and the…
The late Max Crawford’s last novel was called, “Wamba.” According to the flier announcing it … “After years away, Roy Alan Richardson has come home to western Texas to grapple with the demons that haunt…
“Is this that political-type paper,” a tentative female voice asked when I picked up the phone. I suppose, I answered, forever not knowing what might come next. “Oh. Hi! I am Zaya. I saw an…
A READER ASKED, “Are you sad the print ava is over?” More resigned and nostalgic than sad when I think of the crucial people who truly got it done every week all these years, which excludes…