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Letters to the Editor

A NEIGHBORHOOD ASPHALT PLANT Editor, Coming to a Location Near You: an Asphalt Plant. Citizens of Mendocino County should be aware that the County Board of Supervisors is contemplating a zoning change that would allow…

A 70′s Story of a House: Radical Roomers

In 1970 editor Dwight Macdonald in Tales of Hoffman referred to the 1969 trial of the Chicago Eight as "the most significant kulturekampf of our time." The Tales book was essentially a copy of the…

Panther Soccer 2010

Last Wednesday afternoon, the Panthers drove down Hwy 101 to play the Broncos of Geyserville in what would be the final road game of the regular season. In the earlier meeting AV had dominated the…

Sports Notes

Like our Editor who wrote a fine, poignant article in the AVA last week, I, too, am mesmerized by the 2010 SF Giants Baseball Team playing in the World Series against the Texas Rangers. Three…

Sport

“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ances­tors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is pre­sent in your body.…

Wagner v. The Machine: The Met’s New “Das Rheingold”

For all its much-hyped and massively expensive high-tech stage machinery, the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold seems sur­prisingly underpowered, as if so much money and mental power went into the behemoth contraption…

19 Reasons to Vote Yes on Prop 19

Prop 19 is a regulatory approach we can live with. The purpose is to mainstream marijuana thru limited adult legalization and local control. That means cities and counties can decide their own rules regarding taxation.…

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