For the last few weeks, newspapers around the North Coast have been calling on State Senator Pat Wiggins to resign her office. The worst of them adopt a pleading sort of tone. First they fire…
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Many of us traveling into late middle age have by now laid our parents to rest and/or moved them in with us or into transitional facilities. In so doing we have come face-to-face with the…
The snow was already dusting the Organ Mountains of New Mexico fringing this high desert town, promising a hard winter further up the spine of Obama's America. I ride the Mexican bus (officially doing business…
Former Humboldt County Prosecutor Allison Jackson says she has a wide-ranging base of support that’s united in the belief that the District Attorney’s Office needs to change for the better.
With the winter rains soaking deeper, evaporating, and draining into the Navarro River, the ground is nearly perfect for digging post holes and setting the timbers. It amazes me how there can be standing water…
Mendo's pot rules just got a whole lot more complicated.
We got a message from an angry fan on our Facebook page a month or so back about our biz model here at TheAVA.com. He challenged us to a debate, which we happily accepted. But…
A look at the proposed rules for Mendo's growers.