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Posts published in December 2011

Letters To The Editor

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…

Farewell To C.H.

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…

Bird’s Eye View

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.…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: Susan Newstead

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…

Zorba & Kurt & Hermann

“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…

Is Premier Pacific Vineyards Dead?

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…

Valley People

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 Don’t Know What We’re Doing’

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…

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