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Letters To The Editor

THE LITTLE PEOPLE Dear Colonel: My apologies for the sudden spate of communications, but I had to comment on the February 23 Todd Walton piece…

Book Up On Diabetes, Doc

Editor, A Short-Term Death Sentence — On February 19 while in Mendocino County Jail I was tested at 4am and had low blood sugar of…

Off The Record

This Week: David Eyster's promising start; Willits' blue-clay slip-slide; Jerry Brown's big lie; and much more

Valley People

HIS MANY FRIENDS in The Valley are saddened by the passing of Chad Ewing, 24, of Philo. Chad was a sixth generation native of the…

Letters To The Editor

RECRUITING THE DEAD TO WAGE PEACE Editor: They repose in a verdant park with manicured lawns, bright flowers and splashing fountains near Romaone-sous-Montfaucon, France. They…

Prison Poetry

Editor, Dateline San Quentin State prison, South block, Alpine section, entry 2: Play now, Pay later. Picking up the pieces one day at a time.…

Dreaming Of Brautigan

The seventh-grade classroom fell silent, before I noticed it and then it was too late; the teacher was standing over me and all the other…

In Defense Of Christina Aguilera

Few things are more entertaining than defenses of the indefensible, as was proven by the charge of the lite brigade into the blathersphere earlier this…

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