Someone made the odd, maybe malicious, certainly rash decision to put Tom Wolfe on the right hand side of Harper’s 150th anniversary cover, facing Mark Twain, a leonine, earthy, dignified old devil, sitting in alert…
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Sometimes, despite the best of intentions, one cannot help but to think of Jesse Jackson. Not the Jesse Jackson of hymietown fame, nor the Jesse Jackson of the stifling, impotent Democratic Party who likes to…
A very big rig truck pulls up in front of a very small Boonville store every Thursday morning about 11. The truck and trailer are a lot bigger than the store. The driver of this…
As I wrote in the March 15 paper, this reporter and Logger Head Coach Jerry Philbrick and Logger defensive coordinator Dan Kuny had phoned our beloved SF 49ers in an attempt to get the pro…
The very first day I saw this River I made myself a promise that I would buy myself a site on the bank of it. We got up early that day — myself, Eddie Downing,…
The Board of Supervisors were told Tuesday the county’s finances are in pretty good shape following a mid-year budget review. The real question, though, is how long will that healthy condition last? According to Acting…
Patti Campbell's long-running record of duplicity and damage to Fort Bragg and the 4th District of Mendocino County hit another low point this week with the loss of funding for the Pudding Creek Trestle Bridge…