Born and raised in Mendocino County, Mendocino County Detective Sergeant Luis Espinoza has spent the last eight years in local law enforcement, most recently in…
Posts published in “Essays”
(AVA’s current preferences are in bold type — subject to change.)
Supervisors:
Pinches because he's frugal, creative, truly independent.
Williams, although so far it's unclear why he wants to be a supervisor beyond the usual lib platitudes.
Primary resources, in a historian’s world, are original materials upon which researchers can study to begin writing books or articles about any person or subject.…
The Kavanaugh hearing underscored another eerie condition in contemporary USA life that offers clues about the combined social, economic, and political collapse that I call The…
Lambeth, London — That Frank Sinatra’s recording of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and Bobby Darin’s “Splish Splash I was Takin’ a Bath” are both…
A May 24, 2017 piece in the AVA chronicled the early history of English sailor William Richardson's arrival at San Francisco Bay in 1822, his…
The Delta Cross Channel is part of the Central Valley Project, a massive federal welfare program for delivering water from the Sacramento and Trinity rivers…
There is a timelessness to Marshall Newman's recollections of the "way it used to be" in pre-urbanized Anderson Valley (not The Anderson Valley you and…
First, I would like to state for the record that my intent in recounting the following tale is not to brag, or preen, or pump…
One of the astonishing aspects of our internet-connected world is the ability to discover – and buy – stuff we never knew we wanted. Amazon…
The County fair two weekends ago was a fun one; the nicest weather in a long while for the fair was enjoyable too. My husband…