Five years ago this Christmas, an elderly aunt of mine from a little town in Illinois came out to Boonville for a visit. Like lots…
Posts published in December 1998
Any visit to an American newsstand will illustrate the most widespread phenomenon of the times: The print media are runny with the virus of celebrity.…
Friday night, and I figure all the shoppers should be fleeing the city for their own suburban holes and strip malls festooned with plastic santas…
MONDAY, in Ten Mile Justice Court, Dominic Affinito entered a not guilty plea to a charge of simple battery on Fort Bragg councilman-elect, Dan Gjerde.…
On November 27 the Sacramento Bee quoted John Fisher, co-owner of Mendocino Redwoods and son of Gap Founder Don Fisher of the Fisher family (estimated…
In a major ruling on employees first amendment and labor rights, the National Labor Relations board last week rejected a bid by the 7th Day…
Tuesday, about noon, Carolyn Short, pumped the last gallon of gasoline at the Boonville service station she and her late husband Jeff had begun 37…
Years ago I persuaded Andrew Kopkind to help me drive a 1962 Imperial LeBaron from Coral Gables to Vermont. We had not been many hours…
Most Americans, the ones who pay attention to what’s going on in the real world anyway, agree that this country is in a bad way.…
For the first time in a decade of strikes and labor conflict between graduate student employees and administrators of the University of California, graduate student…
How important is the pain of the past? Should people strive to confront it or try to forget it? Such questions routinely underlie news stories…