Tell your California friends you’re going on vacation, and they’ll smile. Mention that it’s a family vacation, and that smile may falter for a moment.…
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Here are two recent typical press releases from the DA’s office: • Sandy Lee Cooper, 31, of Willits, was sentenced on May 27 to 4…
Susan Massini might as well have torched Fort Bragg herself that September night in 1987 for all she did about it. In two hours the…
This yet mythical realm encompassing Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru is populated by nearly 50,000,000 citizens of their respective republics, 40% of whom (low end estimate)…
It was early in the fall of 1951. There were three of us, in our late teens. We were foolishly trying to drive home in…
On May 26 the New York Times finally hitched up its pants, took a deep breath and issued an editorial declaration of moderate regret for…
By year’s end the greatest newspaper in the United States will have relocated from California’s North Coast to Eugene, Oregon. Bruce Anderson is leaving Boonville.…
Upon hearing of the beheading of Philadelphia "contractor" Nicolas Berg in Iraq by self-proclaimed al Qaeda operatives, I searched the internet for articles on the…
There is that old cliché of travel: that it allows the traveller another perspective on the place left behind, the one he may or may…