According to Violet Parrish Chappell, 82, traditionalist and historian of the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians, her people's name – their real name, not the…
Posts published in “Day: July 7, 2011”
NO SHOWS, NO SMARTS Editor: “The PG&E and Wellington Energy employees were a no-show this morning at the Wellington Energy Installation Yard, while 26…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. I am writing this on the morning of the Olde Time July…
I drove out of the heart of the Valley and headed south, past ‘downtown’ Yorkville and at the 44-mile marker I turned into the driveway…
I am reading The Collected Stories of Frank O’Connor for the third time in twelve years. Enough time has passed since my last reading of his remarkable stories so I have forgotten sufficient details and plot twists and endings to make the stories new to me again; and in some ways they are better than new because I know them now as I know favorite pieces of music or beloved paintings, and in this further experience of them I discover more and more of the genius they contain.
“That a war of extermination will continue to be waged between the races, until the Indian race becomes extinct, must be expected. While we cannot…
Straight from Riker’s Island to the Elysée? There’s a political arc worthy of Brecht and Weill! Dominique Strauss-Kahn was sprung from house arrest in Manhattan…
It’s easy to see why people take a shine to Sunny Edwards. She’s pretty and personable with a warm smile, and somehow while in jail…
They were all there at last week's meeting of the supervisors, these noble sons of the soil, and they were all thirsty for what's left…
This week: Ignoring the Grand Jury; Mendolib, Coast Branch; Redistricting the 5th; and much more
WE'RE ALL SADDENED at the passing of Howard Morse, a long-time resident of Boonville. A retired logger, Howard was an unfailingly friendly man who was…