Last week, we pointed out that the Supervisors planned to review their long list of long-ignored “directives,” a number of which were issued five months ago in a budget discussion last August, at their Tuesday,…
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AVA PEOPLE were kicking this big subject around today: Why are there no protest songs like the 60s & 70s? Lazarus of Willits popped up out of his grave to offer his opinion: “Completely different…
THE WEATHER WEEK THAT WAS, paragraphs describing the long week of unprecedented snow in the Anderson Valley: FIRE CHIEF ANDRES AVILA: Needless to say, we have been busy in Yorkville for the last few days.…
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Looking at Richard Avedon’s black-and-white photos of the Chicago Seven which peered out at me in a recent issue of The New Yorker felt like seeing the dead. That’s not surprising. With the exception of…
No better human being exists than a good cop, and no worse creature than a bad one. The truth is, the good cop and the bad cop are often the same cop, at different moments,…
In early 1950s television, Richard Carlson starred in “I Led Three Lives.” Each episode started with a dramatic voiceover: “This is the fantastically true story of the Herbert A. Philbrick, who for nine frightening years…