FIRST ENRON, THEN PG&E Editor, Last Spring I was sitting in Fort Bragg’s City Council considering a potential no Smartmeter resolution and listening to a man address the ruthless utility known as PG&E regarding rate…
Posts published in December 2011
I can’t count the times, down the years, that after some new outrage friends would call me and ask, “What happened to Christopher Hitchens?” — the inquiry premised on some supposed change in Hitchens, often…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Never let it be said that a Turkey Vulture is not a noble creature, particularly when it comes to admitting one’s mistakes.…
I met with Susan at her lovely home in Rancho Navarro and we sat down overlooking the meadows outside with a cup of herbal tea and began to chat... Susan was born in Boonville, Missouri…
“As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.” — Nikos Kazantzakis In 1965, when I was 16 and deeply unhappy, I went…
Some of the wealthiest and best-connected land speculators in the western hemisphere came together for a conference two months ago in Miami, from October 19-21, to discuss their accelerating feeding frenzy, more like a hoarding…
BOONVILLE POSTMISTRESS COLLETTE Hahn is singlehandedly woman-ing the always busy Boonville Post Office, dashing from sorting mail in the back to the counter to wait on people dispatching Christmas packages. We hope she doesn't think…
We can sell off five “surplus” properties and make our broke County some money. That was the thinking at the December 6 meeting of the Supervisors. A couple of the parcels appear to be tax…