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Posts published in May 2019

Seven-Year Sentence Week

It was the week of the seven-year sentence – everybody got seven years, whether the crime was a burglary or a homicide. Didn’t matter. Dylan…

Snap, Snap Goes the Gjerde

Back in October of 2017, a labor consulting outfit called Koff and Associates was given $100k to do study of county wages and salaries to…

Remembering Last Summer

2018. California is disappearing in smoke and flames. Global warming sits on us like a smothering blanket. Out my window I see two fires and there are at least seventeen ongoing

Cemetery Voodoo

I appeared in front of the Russian River Cemetery District Board of Directors last week at their monthly meeting. I was ushered in to what…

True Crime in the 1910s

For those who think stagecoaches went out with the turn of the twentieth century, think again. As late as the onset of World War I,…

Off the Record (May 29, 2019)

I'VE ENJOYED Kate Magruder's and Sarah Reith's interviews on KZYX with Back to the Landers, the BTLs being pretty much the NPR demographic, you might…

Biloxi Days: The Barracks Visit

I arrived at Lackland Air Force Base outside of San Antonio for Officer Training School in November of 1967. For reasons known only to my…

MCT: Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Steep Seas;
Correcting Witt;
T-Bone Walker;
Chili Cook-Off;
1920s Felons;
Abusive Guardian;
Anti-War Art;
Ukiah Co-op;
Vincent Price;
Taco Tuesday;
Tiger;
Incendios Preparacion;
Employee Executions;
Anthem Rule;
War Criminals;
Your Money;
State Street;
Roundabout;
Human Issue;
Yesterday's Catch;
Long Emergency;
Modern Life;
Soft Circle;
Beyond Capitalism;
Cancer Office;
Campaign Finance;
Russian History;
Dem Disaster;
Felony Journalism;
Optimist;
Eighth Move;
Found Object

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