“I hate my hair!” Who hasn’t heard a woman utter this grievance at one time or another? In prison, it’s a universal complaint, a woeful acknowledgement that, whether curly, straight, kinky, or gray, most women…
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It started out as a simple enough road trip plan. We were going to drive to Oregon to ride on two tourist excursion railroads we’d never ridden before. It ended up being a 2,100 miles…
American Mandate;
Local Results;
Incumbents Out;
Slow Count;
3rd District;
City Council Races;
Fracking Ban;
Richardson Convicted;
Catch of the Day;
Supervisor Woodhouse;
Odd Behavior;
Apple Bite;
Odium Won;
Shamrock Burn;
Prop 1 Passes;
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The Cloverdale Arts Alliance on November 20 On Thursday, November 20, the Cloverdale Arts Alliance (CAA) is pleased to present the CD Release Party for Bobby Lee's new solo album "Stella". Stella is a traditional…
Obama celebrated his presidential victory in 2008 with these appointments: At the USDA, as the director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Roger Beachy, former director of the Monsanto Danforth Center. As deputy…
Recently listening to fascinating interviews with Noam Chomsky and Julian Assange, I was struck by their repeated use of the expression American Exceptionalism. The expression as they used it had geo-political connotations, but I think American Exceptionalism also captures the essence of the most popular operating system of the individual American psyche.
I was born in western Pennsylvania, in McKeesport, a steel mill town outside of Pittsburgh. I was the youngest seven kids and my dad was in the ice business, delivering ice to homes and businesses for their “ice boxes”. That was a business clearly headed for obsolescence. Shortly after I was born, he sold the ice business and bought a Mobile gas station.
A couple of weeks ago, we referred to Visit Mendocino County and its sister organizations — the Mendocino County Lodging Association and the Mendcoino County Promotional Alliance — as a "scam-a-rama." Wendy Roberts of Mendocino…
With two games to go, AV remained in second place, just one point behind leaders Roseland Prep, who, given their opposition, would almost certainly finish with two wins to clinch their fifth regular season title…