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Songs Of Tax Resistance

A handful of tax resisters lingered outside of the post office in downtown Ithaca on Monday into the early evening when I walked by, my return already filed electronically earlier that day. The protesters formed…

Top 9 Adventure Travel Hoaxes

Traveling may be thrilling, exhausting, dangerous, mind-opening and, occasionally, boring. But more than anything else, going to faraway places is easier talked about than done. Thus, we find history riddled with quiet rumors and full-fledged…

Prohibition ’37, Part 2

A tragicomedy featuring the US Treasury Department, industries reliant on hemp, and the American Medical Association. Continued from last week’s AVA.

Law Abiding Citizen

To live outside the law you must be honest. — Bob Dylan I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law. — Woody Guthrie…

Alpha One On Patrol

The morning oozed in gray and wet. The monsoon sky at high tide. Clouds so wet, so low that you can feel them cold on your neck. Push off your cover. A banana leaf. Banana…

River Views

More than 50 denizens of the area around the Albion River crowded into the Albion School during the evening of April 11th to discuss the 586-acre timber harvest plan Mendocino Redwood Company has proposed for…

Prohibition ’37

Act one, scene one of a three-act tragicomedy featuring the Treasury Department, US industries reliant on hemp, and the American Medical Association. A radio is playing “Nice work if you can get it” as the…

North Coast Railroad Authority Tosses EIR

Earlier this afternoon, the North Coast Railroad voted 8-1 to rescind its earlier certification of an environmental impact report governing operations on the southern end of its line. (Want background? See yesterday’s LostCoastOutpost.com post.) LoCO…

Tenuous Grip

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat. “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.…

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