TOM PINIZZOTTO HAS RESIGNED as Health and Human Services Agency Assistant Director effective February 5. The former Ortner Management Group (OMG) employee, in an obvious conflict of interest, used his position as County Mental Health…
Posts published in January 2016
I'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Year, full of personal successes and clement weather. May 2016 roll out before you all like a plush carpet down which…
How does a punk-rockish performer experimenting his way through the New York scene of the 1980s end up pasting together a languid soundtrack for a period-piece melodrama involving sumptuously-suited lesbians? I refer, of course, to…
Dear Eric, I don’t believe the news. How can I? There are too many things still to discuss with you, that we are still planning, and I’m not going to let some lousy rumor ruin…
Pinizzotto's Replacement;
Sell Everything;
Happy Burlapin;
Baby Dean;
Facebook Math;
Robert Wallis;
Female Amazons;
Steve Harper;
LakeCo Fires;
Mexicali Amigos;
Yesterday's Catch;
For U;
Caregiver Tales;
William Turner;
Bombing People;
House Socialists;
Nothing;
Coming Attractions;
Audition Workshop;
Voter Registration;
Queenmary Culture;
Ticket Amnesty;
Charter Project;
Homeless Count
Mexican authorities' nabbing of Sinaloa Cartel CEO Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán — who made the Forbes 500 list four years running, even as the US pumped hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid and…
LIKE EVERYONE ELSE in The Valley I was shocked to learn that Eric June had passed away unexpectedly on Friday at his home in Truckee. The family goes way back in the Anderson Valley. Eric's father,…
This coming Monday, January 18, Martin Luther King’s birthday. With the world facing so much chaos and uncertainty, and witnessing hatred, cruelty, and conflict in so many places, it certainly seems appropriate to pay heed to his words, “We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.” As true today as on the day he uttered it.
You write long enough in newspapers and you develop a series of sources. People you can go to for information and people who want to provide you with information. It is usually best to view…