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When Giants Ruled The Board Room

“When Giants Strode The Newsroom” by Tommy Wayne Kramer, brought back memories of the mid-Sixties when I, a twenty-two year old native of West Virginia who graduated from a small college there and decided, in…

In the Time of the Irresponsibles

Tree Frog Johnson, aka Luis Reynaldo, was a free range pedophile who established himself in the Boonville area in the early 70s, mostly staying with his sanctioned catamite on the property of a back-to-the-land family…

Mister Nice Guy

If there is one thing you can say about me without risking a libel suit, it’s that I have terrific manners. As Bill Saroyan wrote one time in the California Pelican, “He drives you crazy,…

AV Unity Club: 100 Years of Service

This is the first in a series of articles about our local Unity Club in celebration of 100 continuous years of community service. The AV Unity Club was originally founded on December 8th, 1923. I…

Don’t Cry For Me, Ukiah

Or put in a parking lot… When tourists visit San Francisco they take photos of the Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower and those beautifully painted Victorian houses lined up along Alamo Square. In New York…

Drug Wars & Peace

A gorgeous clear San Francisco day. Strolling downhill from a meeting up at the medical center on how to keep the “abortion pills” available to any woman who wants and needs them in these troubled…

My Travels With Wes, V

A couple of weeks ago Wes and I drove another leg of our roadside visits to Highway 128’s historic and iconic buildings. This one was an easy jaunt from the Hamar Olsen ranch, formerly Edmeades…

Only In Mendocino

A few years ago I moved with my family from the village of Mendocino, California to Coos County in Southern Oregon. We didn’t know a soul in this part of Oregon, though we have some…

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