On sports pages and websites, “the league” and ”the NBA” refer to the billionaires who own the franchises — not the athletes they employ. The owners appoint a commissioner to pursue their collective interests and be their mouthpiece.…
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A reader of this publication recently asked about the history of Yorkville. The answer to this innocuous question is a tale that is pure Anderson Valley; fascinating, unusual and slightly bizarre. Over its 150-year history,…
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At dawn on Friday, December 5, 1879, Mendocino County Sheriff Jim Moore, Deputy Doc Standley, a stage driver, and twenty-one-year-old Clarence White surrounded a cabin a mile outside of the Butte County community of Nimshew.…
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The Fort Bragg City Council held its third face-to-face meeting with the public Monday night, after more than a year of lockdown Zoom democracy. There were a couple of major items on the agenda, though…