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Letters To The Editor

Norman Solomon’s strong voice — for promotion of a Green New Deal and against big money’s takeover of government — is also an invitation to engage in our future. Now, he is a Democratic candidate…

Take Me Back To Tulsa

My after action report on the annual Rockabilly in the Redwoods Festival is tardy this year since I was taken back to Tulsa right after the festival to help my frantic kid sister, Eunice, deal…

Collapse Scenarios

"Our business gets better as the economy gets worse.” — Kent Moyer, founder & CEO of World Protection Group Inc. The business referred to in the opening quote is officially known as Executive Protection, and…

Off The Record

This Week: Marijuanaland; Eight months later, a new prosecutor; Mendo's budget demons; and much more

Valley People

LAURA HAMBURG will speak at the meeting of the Community Services District Board on Wednesday, September 21st. Visitors usually speak at the beginning of the meeting, which would put Laura on at about 5:30pm. The…

Working With Jere Melo

When I heard Jere Melo was shot, I was in shock. Then angry. Then sad. When news came that, yes, Jere did not survive, that he could not have survived the close-range shots from an…

Spy Rock Memories, Part 7, Continued

Before driving back to the city, the girl I had befriended in the city and I took a walk up to a stately rock formation that was straight out of one of those misty mountain…

Letters To The Editor

McCOWEN’S DISPENSARY FEES Editor, Supposing Supervisor John McCowen will take a hard line on dispensaries will entirely depend on how many fees McCowen can impose. Remember a little while ago, McCowen spearheaded the Measure B…

Hope For The Addicted

Editor, I'm writing to say thank you for all you've done for me and the others who benefit from your terrific newspaper. I'm also writing as a rebuttal of the piece you carried on Frances…

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