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Posts tagged as “essays”

The Flaming Green Pickle Bus

You may have seen it. Maybe in Ukiah, maybe in Hopland, maybe in Boonville. Maybe on the 253 behind an All-In-One tow truck, maybe parked…

The “Right to Die”

Just last year I attended a dramatic reading of ancient texts about mortality. What fun, right? But it drew a full house of over 1,000…

Street Fighting Man

I know your eyes are glued to the circus in D.C. and the slaughter that’s taking place in Afghanistan and half-a-dozen other places in a…

PG&E Undergrounding

I have a Saturday afternoon show on KPFN and recently I was discussing operational and infrastructure improvements PG&E, its lax Public Utilities Commission regulators, and…

Burn Permits

Here's some general information on Burn Permits. The process is far more confusing than it should be but it is what it is. This is…

Yesteryear’s Medical Mayhem

Putting away research materials now that my new book “An Eclectic History of Mendocino County” is done I got to thinking about how I came…

Livernash, Part 4

Three months after Edward Livernash's acquittal and a mere week after being severely bruised in a bicycle accident, John Livernash married a young woman, Lizzie…

Recollections: Don Chui

In all my years, I never had a weapon. That's not to say that all my friends in Texas and New York weren't packing. And…

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