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More Of The Usual

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…

Enough Already

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…

Loose in Obamalandia: Riding the Spine of a Damaged Nation

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…

Farm To Farm

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…

The 99 Plant Rule

Mendo's pot rules just got a whole lot more complicated.

Free or Not Free?

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…

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