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The Boonville Water-Sewer Project: An Exchange

The Boonville Water-Sewer Project: An Exchange

By AVA News Service on October 31, 2018

Dear Members of the AVCSD Board and Members of the Citizen Committee:

Thank you for sending notice regarding the preparation of a draft impact report for the drinking water system/wastewater collection and treatment disposal project for Boonville. I wish to respond as a property owner in Boonville who will be greatly affected under this plan. I am writing to inform board members, citizen committee members, and Boonville neighbors, regarding my concerns for the proposed water and wastewater project.

The Two-Headed Right

By Jeff Costello on October 31, 2018

I was going to say "extreme" right but that would have implied nazi salutes and torch marches. This is the mainstream right, which isn't that far from extreme any more. It was interesting to read…

Of Fire & Creatures of the Deep

By Malcolm Macdonald on October 31, 2018

Nature's ways can be a predictable or a mysterious thing. Of course, when humans toy with nature, you never know what the result might be. Some folks get all wrapped up in their dedication to…

Mendocino Talking: Jini Reynolds

By Dave Smith on October 31, 2018

Jini started college when she was 12 years old, has flown rescue helicopters, is on the Executive Committee of the Redwood Valley Grange, has counseled professional Hockey, Football and Basketball players on anger management, acted…

American Tribalism & The Democratic Party

By Larry Minson on October 24, 2018

There are lines that have been drawn that reveal fascist tendencies on both sides of our governmental duopoly.  Loyal Democrats in our county believe that it is verboten to criticize their political club.  They insist…

Today, Chipotle, Tomorrow…

Today, Chipotle, Tomorrow…

By Flynn Washburne on October 24, 2018

After years of sticking it to the man, prominently upthrusting my middle finger in the general direction of the man, breaking the man’s balls for the sheer momentary enjoyment of it, and just generally and…

Letter To San Francisco

By Denis Rouse on October 24, 2018

Dearest bitch by the bay, when a best friend John suggested we meet in your bosom to spend a few leisurely days, I thought of the new fifty-eight story skyscraper of multi-million-dollar condos at 301…

There’s Always Good News

By Jim Gibbons on October 24, 2018

It’s been one year since my book came out. I had joined a Hawaii writers’ group at the end of 2016 to get some inspiration to finish what I had been working on for the…

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