COUNTERPUNCH Presents the West Coast Memorial Celebrating the Life & Work of Our Friend, Alexander Cockburn. Saturday, October 20, 2012. 5-7pm, Citizen Space, 425 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA. The event will be emceed by…
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THAT POTENTIAL TRAIN WRECK in the person of Rich White, the County’s recently hired Retirement Administrator who wants to hire a $110k per year (including benefits) full-time “financial officer” to do much of what White…
COAST HOSPITAL TO FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY, by Mark Scaramella PACHULSKI, Stang, Ziehl & Jones. Friedman & Springwater, LLP. Start getting used to hearing those, or similar, aegypian words fairly often in coming months whenever the…
THE FOLLOWING TWO stories should be read together. The first is from the New York Times, the second is based on a press release from the Ukiah Valley Medical Center: MENINGITIS OUTBREAK, NYT October 4th…
THE FLYNN FIRE was declared “95% contained” as of Thursday morning, CalFire has announced. The agency also amended the size of the blaze to 195 acres over yesterday's announced 200 acres. The fire began Monday…
THE FLYNN FIRE is in its mopping up stage. A small army of CalFire vehicles covered the parking lot of the Boonville Fairgrounds early Wednesday morning, but from everything we've heard from our Comptche correspondents…
THE POST-NAM GENERATION Dear Editor: My name is Leif Berkson and I'm writing in response to the correspondence you have had with Jim Houle about my status in prison and the events leading up to…
If I were to sum it up using the current terminology, I would say my first childhood home had very good “energy.” It was a happy time for all of us — my father continuing to develop his ministerial skills, my mother beginning her teaching career (which continued for another 25 years), my brother entering adolescence and me beginning school and piano lessons (which continued for another six years).