CHRIS DIAZ'S COERCED PLEA “They had me locked in seg… coerced into doing things I would not normally have done.” — Chris Diaz, letter from Brownwood Texas Jail The new development in the Chris Diaz…
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RARELY do we celebrate County appointments, but we're pleased to see Karen Wandrei appointed to the second-in-command position at the Welfare (aka Health & Human Services) Department. We very much admired Ms. Wandrei for her…
Mitt Romney will be the Republican to face President Obama in the fall. Tuesday night was the clincher, as the Mormon zealot won in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington DC. He may stumble on, but the…
Reading Bruce McEwen’s tragic Hug A Kid, Go To Jail, I thought, “My God, there but for the grace of luck and chance and (in my system of belief) the intervention of angels, I, too, might have been arrested for child molestation and been sent to prison and labeled a sex offender for the rest of my life — on several different occasions. What? How?
CALTRANS has been ordered by a federal judge to correct its carelessly drafted environmental analysis that would widen and realign Highway 101 through the ancient redwoods of Richardson Grove State Park in Humboldt County. Southern…
GWEN SIDWELL of Boonville has died at age 88. A long-time resident of the Anderson Valley, Mrs. Sidwell had been married to Bill Rapp, for years the science teacher at Anderson Valley High School. She…
Baseball season again. Time to re-enter the temples of baseball. Temples? Yes, temples. To most people, baseball is merely a game. But to some others, it's virtually a religion, a game played in temples —…
I previously served up a short listing of alcoholic beverages of the world — and I’m glad I’m merely writing about so much booze. For had I set myself to tasting my way across the…