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WINTER SOLDIER

Dear AVA, I am appalled at the complete lack of mainstream corporate-media coverage of the 2008 Winter Soldier hearings (held last week in Maryland). These hearings contained important, powerful testimony from men and women who…

Culture Notes

A reader writes: "I was enjoying my weekly hit but what to my amazement my wandering eyes should appear — 'I drove off to where I was, well past Printing Xpress, deep into an audio…

Steve Talbot Comes to Boonville

Steven Talbot, featured at last weekend's Second Annual Boonville Film Festival, is best known for his award-winning work as producer of PBS's Frontline series. This year, Talbot is also teaching at UC Berkeley's Graduate School…

Dynamo

Rumors are as important as chow. Whatever the plans are for your unit have a lot to do with how long you live or keep your body parts.

Drink the Original Good Stuff

In late August of this year, we were still cleaning up the last bales of hay from Navarro Ridge. There is no better place in the world to stack hay than up where the wind…

Impressions of China

I recently spent seven weeks traveling from Tibet to Beijing, and through Shanghai, Hong Kong, and nine other cities, traveling and staying with locals. I observed many admirable things in China, things scarcely found here.…

Random Thoughts on a Grey Morning

I woke this morning determined to write about the influence of John Keats’ sensual imagery on Alfred (Big Al) Tennyson, but who am I kidding? I mean, is anyone else as tired of Boston sports…

Mr. Hargrave’s Greenhouse

An angry man called Karen Ottoboni’s public affairs program on KZYX last Friday. “Talking about marijuana growing in this county, here’s a scandal. In Rancho Navarro we are an association here of homeowners. How on…

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