In late August of this year, we were still cleaning up the last bales of hay from Navarro Ridge. There is no better place in…
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I recently spent seven weeks traveling from Tibet to Beijing, and through Shanghai, Hong Kong, and nine other cities, traveling and staying with locals. I…
I woke this morning determined to write about the influence of John Keats’ sensual imagery on Alfred (Big Al) Tennyson, but who am I kidding?…
An angry man called Karen Ottoboni’s public affairs program on KZYX last Friday. “Talking about marijuana growing in this county, here’s a scandal. In Rancho…
Motorists driving West on Mountain View Road this past summer might have noticed there was a stand of corn growing off to the left, in…
Last week we set sail through “Ukiah After Dark,” on the inland party boat without mentioning that the consequences of a night on the town …
When the Drug Enforcement Agency raided a large-scale marijuana grow three weeks ago on Navarro Ridge Road, neighbors of the pot gardens were very pleased.…
We are being walled in. Every second that we stay here, they are adding another inch to the wall they are building along the southern…
Quick, you old experienced touring rider out there, arise and identify the largest physical feature of the American west? The Rocky Mountains you say? Sorry,…
I’m at a disadvantage here, writing for the AVA. I don’t have a clue if anyone is even reading this stuff since I can’t get…
California's spectacular First Congressional District, the longest C.D. in the lower forty-eight states, stretches 300 awe-inspiring miles from the Oregon border to the San Francisco…