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Posts published in March 2014

Adventures In Morocco

The two young Americans were very lucky to have met David on the ferry between Algeciras and Tangiers. Things might have turned out much worse. David was a tall, elegant, cosmopolitan, multi-lingual Brit who befriended…

HumCo: Jail Release Dilemmas

A community forum on county jail release policies put questions to a local panel whose members in turn asked residents to consider what they can do to effect change. Faced with obvious dissatisfaction over late…

Google Money

If you google “money,” the search engine called Google, from which that verbification is derived, will tell you that there are 1.12 billion results (as of February 27, 2014). That sounds like a lot of…

Let’s You & Him Fight

So, now we are threatening to start World War Three because Russia is trying to control the chaos in a failed state on its border — a state that our own government spooks provoked into…

Valley People (Mar 5, 2014)

MARCH MIRACLE, take two. Last year we got a nice late rain, and this year we got another one, a real trash mover as they say in Boontling that fell all day Monday, ceasing about…

A Tramp-like Bird of Prey Abroad

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. The “misbehaving” in the Valley over the past few weeks should probably now be curtailed, as by the time you read this…

Let’s Play Doctor

Last Friday the District Attorney and one of the Judges added medical doctor to their usual job descriptions. It was pretty amazing, really, but all kinds of fantastic changes are underway in the judicial system,…

California’s Water Pathology

Speaking at the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board’s once-every-other-month meeting in the north Santa Rosa burbs on January 30th, California State Water Resources Board member Steven Moore characterized California’s drought as a natural…

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