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Letters From The Editor

POINT OF FACT Editor: Although I cannot speak to the incident regarding a phone call to John Coate as I was not present, the procedures of the Board of Directors of MCPB follows strict Robert's…

Here He Comes Again!

Newt Gingrich is a one-man, made-in-America melt­ing pot. Here’s a committed devotee of tooth-and-claw capitalism, vultures perched on both shoulders, advocate of 8-year old black children working as janitors — cam­paigning with a pro-worker film…

Poverty As A Crime?

If all of the homeless people in the United States formed their own city, its population would be very close to that of San Francisco — about 750,000. About 40 percent of those people are…

The 49ers

The New York Giants defeated the San Francisco 49ers 20-17 after ten minutes of overtime in the NFC championship game in the rain at Candlestick Park Sunday afternoon. Earlier that same day the New England…

Hahn-Bin

Provocative Korean-born violinist Hahn-bin pranced and preened his way across the wood floor of the North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks last Sunday as a part of the NDMA's annual concert series. "American…

Mineral Wrongs

We boarded an airplane at San Jose's Mineta Airport in December, taxied down the runway until the nose pointed to the sky and we lifted up over Silicon Valley. I watched the mountains through the…

The Dry Year

Back about 1925 or so we had a dry year, the last I remember. It quit raining in February and it didn't rain again until the following December, after nearly a full year. It was…

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