The recent decision to retire the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux nickname has sent ripples across the national sports scene. Gerhard Krauthammer, general manager of the New Jersey Jumping Jews of the Eastern Basketball…
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While the rich still have not figured out how to evade death, they have always been adept at escaping taxes even from beyond the grave. During Johann Sebastian Bach’s day, a sovereign’s demise was yet…
DAN KUNY is organizing a County-wide football team to challenge any neighboring county to a game at the Boonville Fairgrounds on July 31. A small entrance fee will be charged to cover the costs of…
STRAIGHT SHOOTING To all those who are dealing in Mendocino County: I can't leave this county without saying anything. I feel the urge to speak my mind. I got sentenced by this crooked court system…
My family was from New York and surrounding areas. I was born in Westchester County where my parents’ families lived and where they met and married. My aunts and uncles lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn.…
Yesterday a tree fell on our car. Fortunately no one was in the car when the wind snapped the top third off the pine tree and a thousand pounds of soon-to-be firewood fell 20 feet…
Nothing is more ephemeral than a concert. Once played it is gone. A recording cannot reproduce or even fully recall it. Such documents are at best approximations. Yet concerts both great and ghastly have a…
When Bison Brewing Company’s bourbon barrel-aged brown ale goes to tap late this spring, the brewery’s owner, Dan Del Grande, may be required by a new law to pay a hefty liquor tax to state…