FIFTY YEARS AGO Editor, We now have the same liberty as an anarchist would have had in Mussolini's Italy in 1939. It seems like 1939 in Mendocino, or like the last days of the Weimar…
Posts published by “Letters to the Editor”
Dear Editor, Aging is a process no one can deny. It begins the moment we are born and continues until the day we die. Though some try to prolong life, aging will eventually take its…
DI-FI’S MISINFORMATION Editor, I received the following response to a letter from senator Feinstein: Dear Mr. Blankfort: Thank you for writing to express your concerns about Israel's decision to redirect a ship [with emergency medical…
Editor, This is about the Clinton Smith case farce. How is it that a 38-year old grown man and school teacher is considered not be in control of the situation with a 15 year old…
THE DEEP END Yikes! Our subscription nearly expired. We have enjoyed your writing/editing for a long time and were provoked to reminisce by one of your various retorts to a David Gurney letter. There was…
LITTLE BOXES, NOT BIG ONES Dear AVA, Rah, rah! for Dave Smith and Boo! to big-box stores that are destroying our counties from coast to coast. This latest ballot initiative Measure A is a tactic…
HUMAN EXCESS Editor, The frustrated television watcher and newspaper reader who looks to science for facts and analysis is faced daily with journalistic accounts which seem deficient if not recklessly lacking information which might promote…
POLKABILLY IN THE REDWOODS Editor, Scotia's fourth annual “Rock-a-Billy in the Redwoods Festival” the first weekend of August had a Celto-Slavic theme celebrating the ancient pagan early harvest holiday, Lughnasa — a good way to…
ADVOCATE GIVES LAW BREAKER A PASS Editor, The editor of the Fort Bragg Advocate News just told me she could not publish the below letter because it would open her up to liability regarding a…