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Ricky Adams Interview

There aren't many people left in Mendocino County whose lives are lived with the seasons, fishing and hunting and making split stuff when the rains come, logging in the summer months, with maybe an abalone…

Will Caspar Become a Sustainable Village?

In August of 1997 I joined with my neighbors to form the Caspar Community. We shared our dreams of Caspar and our concerns for the land that was for sale here. My dream was simply…

Judge Henderson, WalMart’s Newest Greeter

In a small claims suit over my arrest for petitioning at WalMart, Mendocino County judge Richard J. Henderson ignored basic facts in the case to come up with an incompetent and defective decision. Because no…

Working the Pit

There have been times in my life when I didn't have a job, a car, a house or much more than the clothes on my back. But I have always had a baseball glove.  I…

A Culture of Fear

For twenty-seven years Ukiah High School’s popular shop teacher Charles Roberts has taught woodworking, advanced cabinetry and construction techniques to hundreds, if not thousands of inland Mendocino County students, inspiring many to go on to…

Christopher, Please, Don’t Sue Henry!

Hitchens writes in Harper’s, and in his new book The Trial of Henry Kissinger, that this same Kissinger is a war criminal. Kissinger responds to a Detroit radio talk show host, Mitch Albom, that Hitchens…

The Cush-Maker’s Vacuum

Ten or twelve of the usual suspects were making party noises downstairs in the dining room, the kitchen, and the pantry. Banished hours earlier but lurking on the landing, I heard one voice rise above…

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