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Posts published in “Day: July 27, 2011

Apocalypse Nigh?

In these scandal-sodden weeks it’s been tough to write passionately about the fight over deficit reduction. I look up from some wearisome bulletin on the…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Not for the first time, and probably not for the last, I…

How Wine Rules

Whether they’re fighting to prevent regulation of their enormous appetite for water, or greasing the political gears for a big forest-to-vineyard conversion, the wine industry’s major players are deeply involved in politics.

Valley People

THE EDITOR is away from his desk on medical leave of the non-serious but mildly debilitating type he describes as “old guy stuff.” He worries…

Off The Record

This week: Crusties, Kitties & Tweekers in Point Arena; Deputy CEO Kristi Furman abruptly reassigned; James Sanderson, meet DSK; and much more

Ecotopia, Revisited

The main story behind Ernest Calenbach’s 1975 novel “Ecotopia” was about what had been created 20 years after America’s Northwest (Northern California, Oregon and Washington)…

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