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Posts published in August 2011

El Classico De Michoacan

Michoacan is the mostly rural Mexican State from which the vast majority of Hispanic people in this Valley originally hail from. They tell me that it is similar to Anderson Valley in many ways. As…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all - if you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. “I was stuck in traffic in Philo” is an unheard phrase in these parts but it was the ‘talk of the…

Pinoleville, Part II

Back in the early 2000s, I was a party to a couple of short-lived and ill-conceived lawsuits brought by Leona Williams' Pinoleville Tribal Council. Both of these were related to my election to the Interim…

Letters To The Editor

ROBBING THE PAST Editor, I'm reading a great must-read book, Griftopia, by Rolling Stone's political correspondent Matt Taibbi that I have to recommend to everyone interested in understanding the giant rip-off that the crooked international…

A Memoir: The Fortunate Son, Part 16

“When we're gone, long gone, the only thing that will have mattered,  Is the love that we shared, and the way that we cared,  When we're gone, long gone...” — Jamie O'Hara & Kieran Kane, “When…

Rich People

“Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.” — John Kenneth Galbraith I know people who own nice houses and multiple cars and have sufficient wealth to eat and drink…

Off The Record

This Week: Jerry Brown "hoodwinked" on Pinoleville; Allman's booming zip-ties; The Beacon's bogus accolades; and much more

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