Editor, This is about the Clinton Smith case farce. How is it that a 38-year old grown man and school teacher is considered not be in control of the situation with a 15 year old…
Posts published in “Letters to the Editor”
THE DEEP END Yikes! Our subscription nearly expired. We have enjoyed your writing/editing for a long time and were provoked to reminisce by one of your various retorts to a David Gurney letter. There was…
LITTLE BOXES, NOT BIG ONES Dear AVA, Rah, rah! for Dave Smith and Boo! to big-box stores that are destroying our counties from coast to coast. This latest ballot initiative Measure A is a tactic…
HUMAN EXCESS Editor, The frustrated television watcher and newspaper reader who looks to science for facts and analysis is faced daily with journalistic accounts which seem deficient if not recklessly lacking information which might promote…
POLKABILLY IN THE REDWOODS Editor, Scotia's fourth annual “Rock-a-Billy in the Redwoods Festival” the first weekend of August had a Celto-Slavic theme celebrating the ancient pagan early harvest holiday, Lughnasa — a good way to…
ADVOCATE GIVES LAW BREAKER A PASS Editor, The editor of the Fort Bragg Advocate News just told me she could not publish the below letter because it would open her up to liability regarding a…
THE MILK OF THE GODDESS Greetings Esteemed Editor: You mentioned in the July 16 edition a certain Sherry Glaser and some other bare-breasted, fog-basted beauts had flashed President Obama's motorcade and you marveled at Presidential…
SONOMA V. SALMON Greetings Editor: The water on the brain issue — Once again the Teflon coated Sonoma County Water Agency is up to its usual deceptions and is gleefully exploiting the relative innocence of…
WE KNOW Dear Mr. Anderson: I was provided a copy of your response to my letter regarding my client, David Gurney. The information that Mr. McEwen obtained is all contained within a police report prepared…