To begin, let me report that after submitting the previous Rainbow story to the Advertiser, it occurred to me that I had not asked the…
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At the end of WWII, it was generally recognized that the Soviet Union and saved Europe. Russians killed 80% of all German soldiers. The Nazi…
This high school wood shop, built in 1954, will not qualify for modernization funding until the district brings an outside entranceway added in the 1970s…
No work of music has a greater lock on a single ritual than Edward Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance March no. 1 does on American graduations.…
The Dreyfus Affair. Alfred Dreyfus was a French military officer convicted of treason in 1894 for allegedly passing military secrets to the German embassy in…
I was walking down the long hall at my mother’s nursing home when I heard a bright cheery “Hi!” behind me. I turned around and…
There is no shortage of cool places to walk on the Mendocino Coast, so when you need a break from the heat in the Ukiah…
Siena is one of my favorite places that we visited on our trip this spring. I first learned about Siena as a child reading Marguerite…
Journalism, once a noble calling, is now an embarrassment; reporters have reputations worse than used car salesmen. I did newspaper work 35 years, then morphed…