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Posts published in August 2011

Off The Record

This Week: Full Court Press, continued; Low Gap, distilled; Squaw Rock, renamed; and much more

Valley People

LUIS ARMANDO PACHECO was 23 when he died in last Wednesday’s collision with a Coast-bound gasoline tanker on 128 near the Mendo-Sonoma County line. $1300…

Repo Man Cometh

Nothing like having your car repossessed while your mother’s in town for a visit. On a bright sunny morning in June, my life soon became…

Achilles Heel

Sometimes I get the feeling I say all the same things in these blog posts.  Other times, I go back and read them and realize,…

Caring For The Elderly

It's one of the toughest yet most vital jobs of all — caring for the millions of elderly Americans who, though infirm, remain in their…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And what better way to do that than to sing the praises…

Three Musketeers

“Oh, the women, the women!” cried the old soldier. “I know them by their romantic imagination. Everything that savors of mystery charms them.” — Alexandre…

Who’s Really ‘Pro-Life’?

Three decades ago, medical and public health students at UCLA were sometimes taken on a tour of an old hospital ward, previously dedicated to women suffering the aftereffects of illegal abortions.

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