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Posts published in April 2010

Health Care Crisis Hits Home

The unthinkable has been thunk. The supervisors discussed the elimination of healthcare coverage for County retirees under the age of 65.

Letters

A BIG WET WATER SCAM Editor: The Central Valley of California spans almost the length of the state. It lies in a generally north-south direction. The valley is bounded on the east by the Sierra…

The Big Scam: How & Why Washington Hooked Mexico On The Drug War

When I first returned to Mexico City in the wake of the great 1985 earthquake, the biggest drug pushers in that distant neighbor nation were Sherwin Wil­liams Paint (“tinner” or “activo”) and Resistol-Dupont glue (“chemo.”)…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all — if you are sitting comforta­bly then I shall begin... With the summer approaching and The Valley ‘getting its groove on’ as some might say, let’s get straight down to business…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Tom English

I met with Tom at his home in Rancho Navarro and following a warm welcome from his collies, Nell and Emma, we sat down with a cup of tea and some toast and began our…

My Favorite Second Place: Boonville 1999

It was just me and my son Riley leading the 17th Annual Boontling Classic 5K runners west on Ander­son Valley Way to the turnaround. As we hit the mile in 5:36, I said “Just like…

Big River Spring

The copious rains of 2010 made Big River the big muddy for much of the winter, the beach in late April grandiloquent with new sand. The probable summer beachscape is shaping up to be quite…

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