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Posts published by “Letters to the Editor”

Letting Go

Editor, I wrote this while I was in Mendocino County Jail wishing that I was out fishing on the beautiful Navarro River with my son…

Why Bother

Dear Editor, I came across your newspaper through a friend and even though I have never lived in Anderson Valley — Healdsburg was the closest…

You’re in Good Hands

Editor, A basketball in my hands is worth about $19. A basketball in Michael Jordan's hands is worth about $33 million. It depends on whose…

Who’s Getting Released?

Dear AVA, Thank you for sending your book, “Mendocino Noir”! I received the note to retrieve my book here at Soledad prison from the package…

Letters to the Editor 1/6/2009

TRUST THE TRUSTEE To the editor: Thanks to the thousands of voters in Mendocino and Lake counties for their incredible support during the election for…

Letters to the Editor 12/30/2009

Almost of a year ago, I wrote an editorial for the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat in which I called on Barack Obama to be the hero the country so sorely needed (“We Need a Hero,” SRPD, 1/18/09).

Letters to the Editor 12/23/2009

GREENHOUSE SUMMIT GAS Greetings Editor, Can anyone with some economic expertise inform me about how much (in round figures) gasoline, airplane fuel, energy, cop overtime,…

Christmas Lockdown

Editor, Holiday happiness to you all. We are all locked down here due to a murder of a prisoner. About, “The Death of Teddy Ballgame."…

From Florence to Low Gap

Editor, My trip from Florence, Arizona to Mendocino County Jail, and a few words on California prison overcrowding. I sent Mendocino County Jail a 1381…

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