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Mendo’s Crazy Mental Health Funding

Supervisor Dan Hamburg tried to puzzle his way through the County’s mental health funding at last Tuesday’s meeting of the supervisors. The dependably exasperating effort has eroded the mental health of many of its explorers…

Thou Shalt Not Grow On Common Lands

A camouflaged soldier in full battle fatigues walks through a dry, wooded hillside. Oak litter crunches under his feet. He is carrying an orange garbage bag labeled “Don’t Trash California.” The soldier meticulously picks up…

Q&A With Laura Hamburg

The AVA talks with Hamburg about her proposed marijuana dispensary in Boonville.

Off The Record

This Week: A shake up at SEIU; Jim Gibbons tries to finish something; defunding the anti-pot warriors; and much more

Letters To The Editor

OBAMA UNMASKED Dear brothers and sisters, Please, for just a moment, pretend you have not been brainwashed by Barack Obama, or by folks like Timothy Geithner and Nancy Pelosi and all their enthusiastic mass media…

Life With The Lifers

AVA, This is Tony B., still at San Quentin Hotel, Resort and Spa (SQHRS), live with the lifers, still having a great time. I am so glad I'm here. It's Friday night and I still…

A Memoir: The Fortunate Son, Part 13

A concrete stairwell provided an interesting place for me to play my guitar, an old Martin that belonged to a good friend, Harry Jackson, who generously loaned it to me the whole time I was…

Apocalypse Nigh?

In these scandal-sodden weeks it’s been tough to write passionately about the fight over deficit reduction. I look up from some wearisome bulletin on the latest maneuvers of the Gang of Six and here’s Tristane…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: Beverly Dutra

I met with Beverly at her home on what used to be Clearwater Ranch, off Whipple Ridge Road in the Valley behind Philo. It is now Sweetwater Ranch and is a beautiful and secluded little…

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