CHRISTY BOWS OUT Dear Community, To all the People of Mendocino 5th District Community, It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you all that I'm withdrawing from the 2010 Fifth District Supervisor…
Posts published by “Letters to the Editor”
Dear AVA, I would just like to thank you for sending me your paper and continuing with the awesome work on your end. I only know that it is a pleasure to have your paper…
An Open Letter To “The Supes”: The Board of Supervisors (affectionately known as THE SUPES) called a special session on Monday Feb 22nd with only 24 hours notice put surreptitiously on the internet on a…
Editor: The trial jury created by our Constitution is a judicial body with more power than Congress, the President, or even the Supreme Court. Judges frequently say the "issue of law" is for them to…
A DEEP BOW Editor & Reed Whittemore, “I hear the loved survivors tell How naught from death could save, Till every sound appears a knell And every spot a grave.” Wrote Abraham Lincon, at 37.…
To the editor and all of those at the good old AVA: I hope all is well there. I was not going to write this story because the last one had me ending up in…
WHO’S THAT POUNDING? To the Editor: On January 28th at about 2:15pm I was taking a shower. About 15 minutes later there was a loud pounding at my front door. I heard some yelling from…
BLEEPS DEFENDING BLEEPS Dear Editor, The word niggardly, whether it’s an a or an e, or ending with dly, who gives a bleep? We knew what that guy was thinking when he used it to…
To whom it may concern, My name is Glenn Sunkett. I am an African American citizen and Oakland California resident who is being illegally detained, prejudiced, racially discriminated against, inhumanly traded, and a constant subject…