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Can ‘PotDoc’ Be A Valid Specialty?

Every TV station from San Diego to Crescent City has run a segment in which a reporter with a hidden mike visits a local MD who is known to approve cannabis use readily. The reporter…

Irresistible Force Meets Immovable Object

Two valid criticisms regarding last week’s report on the Cruz bust: One from the Cruz camp, the other from the Sheriff. The Cruzes said they didn’t have 51 pounds of meth, and the Sheriff remarked…

Things Fall Apart

Negotiations between the County and its largest union, Service Employees International Local 1021, are stalled. The County wants the union to take an across the board 15% pay cut. Period. The Union rightly argues that…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. First up I must offer apologies on behalf of Gloria Ross and her crew for the cancellation of the monthly Barn Sale…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: Bill Harper

A couple of Saturdays ago, and in a significant break with ’tradition’, Bill somehow managed to get an invite to my house to do his interview and after opening a couple of beers we sat…

‘Food Sovereignty’ In NorCal: A Conversation With Raj Patel

Raj Patel's first book, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, can be read as a ten-chapter exegesis on the ills of global capitalism, as manifested by its gut-wrenching stranglehold over…

Cruzin’ For A Bust

  It has taken more than a year just to get to the preliminary hearing in the Juda and Hugo Cruz case. Juda is the father, Hugo is the son. They are co-defendants. The Cruzes…

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