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Grateful for the Dead

The Grateful Dead? Those guys and their fanatic, tie-died, permanently stoned followers? The band that made interminable music which a noted poet and writer I reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle called “unspeakable, self-indulgent dreck”?…

Letters to the Editor

YOUTH WANTS TO KNOW Anybody? How many laws does it take to make and maintain a civil society? The law library of congress says our laws are uncountable. Now, I don't believe that, but perhaps…

Off the Record

This week: Right-wing nutters & Tucson, Mexican Dreams in Latyonville, iPhone man-beaters in Ukiah and much more

Valley People

IN A WILDLY diverse community like this one, there isn't much that a large majority of us might agree on. But it's safe to say that almost all of us do not want to lose…

Bruce Anderson vs. Supervisor Kendall Smith Explained

On January 5, 2011 the editor of the Anderson Valley Advertiser appeared before Judge John Behnke, and accused 4th District Mendocino County Supervisor Kendall Smith of padding her expense account to the tune of over…

Letters to the Editor

WHEEEEEEE! Dear Editor, In previous letter I have indicated my thinking that there is no hope. As I read the progressive periodicals it is clear that we have more than enough information, facts and ideas…

The 1970s

At a New Year's Eve gathering in Phoenix, a twenty-something kid to whom I had just been introduced looked me over and said, "Man, it must have been cool to have been alive in the…

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