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Posts published in July 2010

Unjustified, Indefensible, Wrong

My sister Allison Krause was one of four students killed in the 1970 Kent State shootings. You may have heard about that day in American history - May 4, 1970 - when the Ohio National…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Efren Mendoza

I met with Efren at his home in downtown Philo, the house alongside the beautiful roses that he grows, oppo­site the post office. As we sat in his lovely back yard and began our conversation,…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. Let’s get straight on to the Public Service Announcements and that way if you don’t want to read all the other stuff you…

Stone Mountain

Stone Mountain just east of Atlanta, Georgia is an enormous granite dome, five miles around at the base, circled by sheer gray cliffs which rise out of the Georgia forest. The mountain looms as large…

Genuine Praise

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” — Carl Jung My recent essay…

New Pot Rules Create More Confusion

Mendocino County is taking another step towards legitimizing medical marijuana with new regulations for collectives. But federal law is getting in the way. Medi­cal marijuana collectives can grow up to 99 plants per five-acre parcel…

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