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Posts published in January 2013

Letters To The Editor

ADNAN AS METAPHOR Editor, Our man on the spot — Adnan Farham Abdul Latif apparently accepted psychiatric medications casually left a potentially Guantanamo assisted suicide which rescued prison authorities of responsibility. Just as Athenian justice…

Beat Poets, Acid Gurus, The Governor & Me

A local saloon changing owners is rarely front-page news in the big city, but the recent sale of Tosca, in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, has received much attention. The much-beloved establishment had reportedly been…

River Views

January 16th marks 225 years since Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment…

The Goldeneye Diaries

I can’t believe how cool the working environment has been this harvest. It seems like all of our twisted personalities are not only welcomed but encouraged to take things to a more exaggerated level. Danny…

Cow Mountain

What is called the Cow Mountain area is roughly from Scotts Valley in Lake County to the mountains east of the Ukiah Valley and from Blue lakes on the north to the Hopland-Lakeport highway on…

Anderson Valley Foodshed News

This is a reminder that our Farmers and Eaters Roundtable will be this Thursday January 17 at the AV Senior/Community Center at the southern end of Boonville. The program for the evening is as follows:…

Four Hundred Thousand

Do you earn $400,000 of taxable income in a year? Have you ever earned $400,000 in a single year? Do you have friends who earn or have ever earned $400,000 in a year? I thought not; nor do I have friends earning that kind of money, though I do know some certifiably wealthy people.

Making A Life, But Not A Living

Oxnard — Lucrecia Camacho comes from Oaxaca, and speaks Mixteco, one of the indigenous languages and cultures of Mexico that were hundreds of years old before the arrival of the Spaniards. Today she lives in…

A Kraken Awakes

Ed note: This book wasn't born in Boonville but it was birthed here on the Miner-Anderson Ranch east of town. * * * The big book of 2013, just published by Knopf, is “American Tropic”…

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