“Click, click, click,” the room was filled with the repetitive sound of chips ricocheting against one another in rhythmic waves that washed over the players and spectators. No one was speaking. The concentration of the…
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The eight televised, three-hour meetings by the House Committee to investigate January 6 are over. There may be more, as early as September. There may be a “Final Report,” as early as December. It’s hard…
We’ve seen renditions of the courthouse the State of California is threatening to inflict upon Ukiah, and the project is wrong and wrong. Mendocino County’s proposed courthouse is the wrong building in the wrong location.…
Medicare is a national health insurance program started in 1965 to provide coverage for certain health related expenses in Americans age 65 and older. It is also the largest single-payer healthcare system in the US,…
The chilly April morning was spent packaging samples of last fall's marijuana crop into tiny plastic bags, then double vacuum-sealing the eight strains using several pairs of disposable vinyl gloves to keep them clean of…
By now, all the red, white and blue bunting has been taken down and stored. The last notes of “The Stars and Stripes Forever” have faded into silence. The last advertisements for “4th of July”…
Though I was only nine years old, I still remember how overjoyed my parents were back in November of 1960 when the votes had been tallied and John Fitzgerald Kennedy had squeaked to victory as…
(A Candid Review of Can Legal Weed Win? The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics (UC Press; $24.95)) Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner, two economists and professors at UC Davis—once known as the aggie school—ask a…
The foremost critic of Prozac from the time it hit the market in 1988 has been Peter Breggin, MD. Appearing as an expert witness on behalf of plaintiffs harmed by SSRIs, he has cost the…