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A Memoir: The Fortunate Son, Part 3

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones, run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives. — Camille Paglia…

Letters To The Editor

DIALOGUE OF THE DEAF AVA — This is in response to your report on April 20th's “Neighborhood Wars.” Well named, but misinformed. Mr. McEwen misinterpreted both mine and Mr. Graham's testimony to a great degree.…

A Volcano Of Lies

Barack Obama, who pledged to restore ethical honor to the White House after the Bush years, is now burying himself under an active volcano of lies, mostly but not exclusively concerning the assassination of Osama…

Off The Record

This Week: Gjerde v. Smith in the 4th; Enviro-activist & Bari-ite Gary Ball dies in Colorado; Eyster's felony-to-misdemeanor pot swap; and much more

Valley People

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JASON. I love you, Bridgett.” A young woman called this one in early Tuesday morning. I knew she was young because women over the age of 30… well, Jason, Bridgett sounded like she…

A Memoir: The Fortunate Son, Part 2

Your life story would not make a good book. So don't even try. — Fran Lebowitz The whole time I was growing up, I never met another kid whose name was Jake. Today I understand…

Planet Clarion Calling

Americans were offered closure Wednesday to one of among the multifarious strands of our national dementias. It took the drab guise of the “long-form” birth certificate, signed and filed in Hawaii on August 8, 1961,…

Letters To The Editor

COVELO OPEN PIT MINE Letter to the Editor On April 21, 2011 over fifty Round Valley residents made the trek down to Ukiah to appear at 9am to speak before the Planning Commission against the…

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