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Posts published in August 2010

Off the Record

This week: The killing of Angel Hernandez by a Mendo sheriff, Santa Rosa's cops and prostitution stings, Covelo's 28th Annual Round Valley Blackberry Festival, a mother not to be reckoned with while drinking, and much more.

Valley People

BIG GARAGE SALE this Saturday 10-5 at 20210 Highway 128 about six miles out just past Meyers Fam­ily Cellars. Lots of stuff at give away prices. EVERYONE seemed to enjoy the weekend softball tournament at…

The Not So Simples

The last few acres of the American prairie with its soil-building native grasses went under the plow in 1984, making us forever beholden to Monsanto and Dow Chemical. The US Forest Service, chartered to preserve…

Do Disclosures Of Atrocities Change Anything?

The hope of the brave soldier who sent 92,000 secret US documents to Wikileaks was that their disclosure would prompt public revulsion and increasing political pressure on Obama to seek with all speed a diplomatic…

Letters to the Editor

WHERE THE FISHIN’S GOOD Editor, I was warned when we moved here to this wonderful state, that the weather was lousy, but the fishing was great! I said, “the good with the bad, the worst…

Why Bach Didn’t Go Swimming

Bach never went in the ocean for a refreshing dip. He never even set eyes on the Atlantic. He could have made it to the North Sea at Lübeck during his sojourn there to learn…

Lake Almanor & The Thermal Curtain

As summer heats up, the water temperatures in the lower reaches of the North Fork of the Feather River may rise above 70 degrees Fahrenheit — uncomfortably and even dangerously warm for the native rainbow…

Propaganda v. Propaganda

Comments on the Oliver Stone film “South of the Bor­der” accompanied by a Carmen Miranda tune, at Berkley’s Elmwood Theatre, July 17, 2011, with econo­mist and scriptwriter Mark Weisbrot (with Tariq Ali-in the film) fielding…

Obama’s Afghan Formula: Peace Through War

The war in Afghanistan is nearly nine years old — the longest in American history. After the US quickly toppled the Taliban regime in October 2001, the Taliban, by all accounts, came back stronger and…

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