BILL MOORES STRIKES AGAIN Dear Supervisor Hamburg, This is in regards to case number (CDRES 1-2006 APN 132320-42 and 132-320-43) to be heard on 21 April 2011. On 10 March 2011, Mr. Fred Tarr (Planner…
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At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirl-pools. Excepting only death, he has no enemies left to meet... That man has awakened to a new youth... Ergo, he is young. —…
CALL JERRY Dear Editor and AVA readers: I arrived at Tehachapi state prison with high hopes of something better to come. Sitting in the San Quentin reception center left me feeling numb. I escaped this…
Just as Guantanamo Bay detention centers and military tribunals have remained in place, the perjury witch hunt trial of Major League Baseball’s home run king, Barry Lamar Bonds, continued unabated and has now reached a predictably ugly conclusion.
For me it is life and taxes that are inseparable: I was born on April 15. Only when I turned forty, six years ago did my friend David Borden, founder of the pioneering synthesizer trio…
One of my guilty pleasures is watching sports highlights on my computer, many of which are prefaced by thirty-second ads for shoes, cars, beer, and the Army.
It looks as though eastern Libya will slide into the Mediterranean under the sheer weight of western journalists assembled in Benghazi and Misrata. A tsunami of breathless reports suggests that Misrata is enduring travails not…
LAST WEEK, as the rest of us scratched our puzzled noggins, the Board of Supervisors concluded what they called their “decision making matrix,” a process steered by a volunteer “facilitator” from Ukiah named Steve Zuieback.