WHAT THE HELL? Editor, For What I’m Worth! In my head I hear voices, they give me direction, they give me choices. Right or wrong I can’t decipher, I guess I’m blessed, I’m not a…
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“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.” — Christopher Lasch A few weeks before my second novel was to be published in 1980, I…
Celebrating his first anniversary in Boonville, this reporter strolled the 14th Annual Boonville Art Walk last Saturday, July 10th. The day was sunny and hot with about six knots of welcome cool winds gusting intermittently…
DEPUTY SQUIRES said Tuesday that "there's more dope out there this year than any of us have ever seen." Last year, Sheriff Allman told us there was more dope out there than he'd ever seen,…
This week: Ann Moorman & the end of the $99 club, Kendall Smith's ethics problem, Willits' mythical bypass and much more...
SOMETHING SHE SAID? Dear Editor, What I don't understand about the “Scourging of Helen Thomas” is why no one mentions freedom of speech. Isn't this still America? What have we come to when a much…
Get Legal, Get Busted: DEA Flouts Mendocino Medical Marijuana Ordinance; Raids 1st Permit Applicant
Covelo, California, Jul 7, 2010: The DEA flouted Mendocino County's newly enacted medical marijuana cultivation ordinance by raiding the first collective that had applied to the sheriff's cultivation permit program. A multi-agency federal task force…
Stone Mountain just east of Atlanta, Georgia is an enormous granite dome, five miles around at the base, circled by sheer gray cliffs which rise out of the Georgia forest. The mountain looms as large…