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Letters To The Editor

ON THE ROAD AGAIN Editor, I enjoyed Todd Walton's latest piece about Kerouac. Here is my story: Back in the late 70's I walked out…

Mendocino County Today: January 10, 2013

BIDEN'S GUN CONTROL PLAN — Buy your gat at WalMart. According to White House press releases, VP Joe Biden is considering a range of gun…

A County Public Bank

It is in the County’s vested interest to establish a Public Bank. This would allow the County to acquire and keep for its own needs…

Mendocino County Today: January 9, 2013

SHIELA DAWN TRACY puts a lot of time and effort into her reporting on pseudo-public radio KZYX, a mostly tax-supported non-profit radio station run by…

Off The Record

WELL, IT'S NOT a face that inspires much confidence, a phrenologist might say, but it's also a face that represents the Obama administration's lack of…

Valley People

EVERYONE'S pleased that the DA took one look at the police report on the alleged after-hours hijinks at the Boonville Saloon and tossed it. No…

Unpublished Work

“If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” -- Toni Morrison They haunt…

River Views

Mendocino Redwood Company, the largest timberland holder in Mendocino County, has applied for permits that would run for eighty years. History stands in opposition to…

Son Of The Tamale Queen

"Little sister,” he’d say to me, “put BOTH a them teeties back in your blouse and move on… you don’t need to be nursin’ no…

The Reno Gang

From October 6, 1866, until February of 1869, the nation's newspapers carried headlines covering the saga of the world's first train robbers and the apparent…

Nine Days

I am, and have always been since I first became acquainted with his body of work, a huge fan of comedian/actor/writer/producer/director Albert Brooks.  I find…

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