Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman said something America needed to hear on '60 Minutes' last Sunday (October 27). The segment, narrated by Sharon Alfonsi and entitled "Growing Pains for Legal Weed," was making the point…
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This 30th anniversary of the quake has provided the Chronicle and Bay Area media with a week's worth of reminiscences
The tabloid he founded in the 1950s, The Realist, violated every taboo. If you discovered Mad in your early teens, at 17 you were mad for The Realist. Krassner was a leader of the Yippie…
Dennis Peron is the Rosa Parks of the medical marijuana movement, the one who would not move to the back of the bus. Dennis refused to accept that anybody — any cop or DA or…
Although it's entitled "How Legalization Changed Humboldt County Marijuana," Emily Witt's article in the current New Yorker is not about new plant varieties but about new social realities. She opens with an assertion sure to please her…
David Fechheimer, San Francisco's premier private investigator, died April 2 after open-heart surgery. We'd been friends for 44 years, minus two. David is Stephen Best in this piece the AVA ran in January, 1990. The…
It won’t be a political tragedy, no matter who wins, but I can’t help seeing the district attorney’s race as the sad, final act