I can’t afford an electric car. Congressman Huffman, thinks I must. Huffman doesn’t work for Tesla. He’s supposed to work for us representing California’s second congressional district. Recently, Politico, a moderate to left, online publication,…
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You can say everybody who’s a politician is getting into the drought act. They’re all coming up with solutions to end all solutions. It would help if Mother Nature were giving her advice to the…
Soon after the mob occupied the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, the New Yorker published a lengthy, detailed piece by a reporter who had closely monitored the planning of the action and then took part in…
To understand San Bruno Mountain today it helps to know some of its history. After all, it’s probably the last frontier in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nearly 300 years after Christopher Columbus arrived in…
I think there’s some protesting over on the coast or near the coast, maybe about logging. Or drilling, or a bridge, or the name of a town over there. You say there are no angry…
Many local AVA readers have probably enjoyed a glass of wine and possibly a tasty snack or two at Disco Ranch in downtown Boonville. It is the perfect setting for relaxation and a chat. It…
No, no. It’s not what you probably think. This is a story told by my father about an experience he had while he was in college at UC Davis in the first half of the…
Okay. Up front I will tell I am on a rant. By day’s end where there was a lot of gray but no substantial rain. Hopes for a good soaking were dashed. GraySkies My cynical…
Despite the good-guy-vs.-bad-guy framework so common in fiction, in real life there can be two, three — many bad guys and nary a good guy in sight. Attorney Heather Burke is urging pot partisans not…