Editor, On October 24, 2011, I was taken out on a medical transport to San Joaquin hospital and the following took place. We were transported with a set of leg irons and a chain around…
Posts published in January 2012
January 5 — Torture is now solidly installed in America’s repressive arsenal, not in the shadows where it has always lurked, but up front and central, vigorously applauded by prominent politicians. Rituals of coercion and…
Last Thursday, in a replay of November's extradition hearing, Deputy DA Matt Hubley presented the Texas warrant to extradite 22-year-old Chris Diaz to Texas where Diaz was arrested in June of 2010 for possession of…
This Week: SEIU shelves deal with county; Norman Solomon in Ukiah; The Pelosi Brigade & KPFA; and much more
As the sun set on 2011, a flurry of paperwork obscured the murky gun theft from the Sanchez home on Mountain View Road, Boonville. The house was broken into and a variety of sporting arms…
Let’s begin the new year by describing the Supervisor's latest expression of fiscal austerity, the December 12th meeting with the County’s Retirement Board. That get-together was held in the Ukiah Conference Center in Ukiah's dying…
CYNDI WILDER WRITES: The AV Senior/Community Center has an expanding vegetable garden that is providing some of the produce for the meals there. All community members are encouraged to take advantage of this local food…
Perhaps I deserved to spend a stormy night on the side of Highway 101 in a crapped-out Ford Courier pickup, watching the lightning flash and freezing in a wet wool blanket I had found in…