Last May, Geoffrey and Barbara Gould moved some 50 pairs of breeding macaws and miscellaneous other parrots from Scottsdale, Arizona to Point Arena. The Goulds were unaware that one of their neighbors on Windy Hollow…
Posts published in October 1999
Corporate growers and their political allies are once again singing that whiny little ditty about how “Americans won't do stoop labor.” Which means they're once again calling for a revival of the bracero program that…
After nearly a year of being bound and gagged by legal constraints arising from a multi-million dollar lawsuit filed against the City of Fort Bragg by Dominic Affinito
Yes, as many of you have let me know, this column — actually a version of it — now appears every Friday in the Ukiah Daily Journal. Counting this rag, plus the Anderson Valley Advertiser,…
She'd called last April, just as the weather was warming up. "My name is Suro." Syrup? I asked. "No, Suro. Sir-O. S-u-r-o. One word. My friend Leonard gave me your number. You're the newspaper guy,…