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Fascists for Fish

The Marine Life Protection Act Initiative has come to to the North Coast, skirting the laws and making up the rules as they go.  The…

Going Amateur: B-Ball on the Mendo Coast

The school gymnasium is just as you remember it: The smell of sweat, the smell of fear; the childhood anguish of an evil room where…

Eco Libs & Eco Grain

I was reading National Geographic this morning and noticed an ad the featured something called Eco Grain. “What in tarnation is Eco Grain?” the headline…

Letters to the Editor

CHRISTY BOWS OUT Dear Community, To all the People of Mendocino 5th District Community, It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you…

There’s Always Hope

Dear AVA, I would just like to thank you for sending me your paper and continuing with the awesome work on your end. I only…

Dancing in the Dark on Low Gap Road

An Open Letter To “The Supes”: The Board of Supervisors (affectionately known as THE SUPES) called a special session on Monday Feb 22nd  with only…

Jurors Rights

Editor: The trial jury created by our Constitution is a judicial body with more power than Congress, the President, or even the Supreme Court. Judges…

The Night Of The Living Deadheads

One of my college friends was a Deadhead. He had crates of cassette tapes with labels like “Bucknell, 1971”, Stanford 1973”; “Fillmore East 1970.”  Of…

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