Editor, A Short-Term Death Sentence — On February 19 while in Mendocino County Jail I was tested at 4am and had low blood sugar of 59. I was given 25 units of Lantus but I…
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RECRUITING THE DEAD TO WAGE PEACE Editor: They repose in a verdant park with manicured lawns, bright flowers and splashing fountains near Romaone-sous-Montfaucon, France. They are the dead of the Meuse-Argonne battles in 1918 in…
Editor, Dateline San Quentin State prison, South block, Alpine section, entry 2: Play now, Pay later. Picking up the pieces one day at a time. I find myself stranded somewhere between nowhere and goodbye. My…
LOCAL-FRIENDLY WINE Dear Editor, In these days of declining tourist dollars, with wine tasting rooms springing up like mushrooms to divide the attention of those tourists who do make it up here, and in light…
NO TEARS FOR HERB Dr. Herb Ruhs, It is sadly disappointing that you blame your own error on the hard-working women providing an irreplaceable service to our community for what others choose to do around…
PULLING TEETH Editor, I was born in 1938. In that year the American Medical Association got the legislation it wanted from the FDR Administration here in the USA. A day that should go down in…
WAY TO GO, NPR! Dear All Things Considered, Many thanks for yesterday's story about the shocking revelations brought forward by Al Jazeera concerning the astounding offer made by Mahmoud Abbas to the Israelis; for those…