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Posts published in “Letters to the Editor”

Why Bother

Dear Editor, I came across your newspaper through a friend and even though I have never lived in Anderson Valley — Healdsburg was the closest I came to it — I feel an appreciation and…

You’re in Good Hands

Editor, A basketball in my hands is worth about $19. A basketball in Michael Jordan's hands is worth about $33 million. It depends on whose hands it in. A baseball in my hand is worth…

Who’s Getting Released?

Dear AVA, Thank you for sending your book, “Mendocino Noir”! I received the note to retrieve my book here at Soledad prison from the package room on December 14 but I was unable to actually…

Letters to the Editor 1/6/2009

TRUST THE TRUSTEE To the editor: Thanks to the thousands of voters in Mendocino and Lake counties for their incredible support during the election for Mendocino-Lake Community College District Area Five trustee. Not only in…

Open Letter to John Coate

Dear John Coate, KZYX GM I wrote your colleague, news director Paul Hansen, a lengthy email on Dec 1 about the Mendocino Medical Marijuana Board’s concern that John Sakowicz not become KZYX's official news reporter…

Letters to the Editor 12/30/2009

Almost of a year ago, I wrote an editorial for the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat in which I called on Barack Obama to be the hero the country so sorely needed (“We Need a Hero,” SRPD, 1/18/09).

Letters to the Editor 12/23/2009

GREENHOUSE SUMMIT GAS Greetings Editor, Can anyone with some economic expertise inform me about how much (in round figures) gasoline, airplane fuel, energy, cop overtime, the use (or non-use) of many thousands of toilets, vandalism,…

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