Guest Commentary by Susan Rush, Manchester There was no surprise, on my part, by the article which appeared in the Independent Coast Observer (ICO) by…
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You can see how seriously Obama is taking the hot populist temper of the American people and their eagerness to strangle every banker in the…
I thought I overheard the following discussion the other day outside the Ukiah Visitors Center. A man in a tailored suit who was driving a…
There is a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco a few blocks from my parents’ house. The Garden is indistinguishable from dozens of other Chinese restaurants in Beijing-By-The-Bay: harsh fluorescent lights, black metal chairs that look like they were stolen from a VFW Hall in Fresno, a pair of grubby tanks in which lobsters and fish await the executioner’s pot. A place where rock cod and appetites come to die.
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comforta-bly then I shall begin. A brief column this week as I have had little time to…
Last week, it rained enough in Tucson for the rivers to run, however briefly. At the same time it rained in the desert, snow dusted the mountains surrounding Tucson. I am not in Arizona to see snow.
The election of Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate by Democratic voters in Massachusetts sends President Obama a message. Voters perceive that Obama’s administration has morphed into a Bush-Cheney government.
Two years ago last December I was hanging out in my Waikiki condo watching the evening news when the top story was about a hiker…
On April 17, 2009, with the edifice of the global economy rotting under an architecture of monumental greed, war deficits, and official hubris, the University of California, Berkeley conducted a groundbreaking ceremony for its Richard C. Blum Center for Developing Economies.
Maybe a ton of carrots are still soaking in the moist soil. The water on the higher part of the field has abated, but the…
Tucked away, up a narrow staircase above Tangents--on the corner of Main and Laurel in Fort Bragg--sits Odd Hours, an art gallery and studio space…