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Kovel’s Challenge

In his 2000 presidential campaign, Joel Kovel ran to the left of Ralph Nader. Just as Nader’s campaign was purely symbolic in the context of money-driven politics...

Love in the Wrong Place with the Wrong Man

I went into Synanon in 1964. My husband Oscar Johnson went to prison. I had a big habit. Synanon, for those who don’t know, was…

Draining the Heart of Fort Bragg

At first, American lumbermen were mystified when Chinese laborers gathered the slime-covered gastropods from the cove where schooners moored to load Union Lumber Company products.…

Guilty as Charged

Summer without warmth, the dark cavity that whispers your name, a necrophiliac’s dream: life draining from gray limbs

Meeting Rescheduled/Harleys Collide

AN ANNOYED Community Services Board canceled its meeting last Wednesday night when Eugenia Herr opened the meeting by asking the board what they were going…

Watergate and the War Against Terrorism

As I tried to explain to my class about the tradition of individual rights and the various attempts of the Executive Branch to usurp various…

Fort Bragg Notes

On Father’s Day, my family reunion had split up and I traveled from out of town back home to Fort Bragg. I took the bus…

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