Early morning, a donut shop in Ukiah. I half-stumble from my room at Motel 6, hoping a large coffee will set my internal latitude and…
Posts published in “Essays”
The American electoral system is a difficult thing to explain to Europeans with a long tradition of proportional representation. My first two-year stretch spent living…
The apparent demise of the Twinkie brings back memories for me. A dozen police cars had been set on fire, which in turn set off…
“Life is full of obstacle illusions.” — Grant Frazier A recent San Francisco 49ers game ended in a tie with the St. Louis Rams, the first professional…
Paul Stanford, 52, is the author and prime mover behind Oregon’s marijuana legalization initiative, Measure 80, which had gotten 46.5 percent of the vote as…
Jim Jones's most ardent supporter in San Francisco press circles was Steve Gavin, the San Francisco Chronicle's city editor. A Baltimore native, he joined the…
Last week’s column touched on Pomo sites near Fort Bragg, which in turn sent me to Samuel Alfred Barrett’s The Ethno-Geography of the Pomo and…
The Romney “Believe in America” bus may have been on the road right until the end, but in the last weeks of the campaign it…
Election's over, the good guy won, so what now for working people? Labor's wish list for our re-elected president and the new Congress is long,…
“Deer have been around for five million years and must know what they’re doing.”— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Our new home turns out to be a…
November 11 is celebrated as Veteran's Day in the United States today. The date originally was known as Armistice Day to mark the end of…