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Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. It seems to have been a week without much news, certainly not the important stuff that regular readers rely on hearing about…

Panther Soccer 2012

A rare Monday afternoon game was played last week when Middletown came to the Valley. This was the first time in a number of years that the teams had met and although it was a…

River Views

Does it seem like more and more of the homeless are accompanied by a dog or dogs? The City of San Francisco has just initiated a program that pairs the homeless with abandoned puppies. The…

Stalking The Wild Superbug

Just under a century ago, following the carnage of WWI, an influenza pandemic swept over much of the planet, killing over 50 million people — more than three times the number killed in the war itself. Soldiers and others moving around globally were a crucial factor in the spread of the flu virus, even though transportation was nowhere near as efficient and far-reaching as it is today.

Walking To Town

Last night by the fire, our new (old) house enshrouded in dense fog, I said to Marcia that I didn't feel we were on the land where this house sits but rather on a boat, or possibly a raft, floating somewhere on the ocean of existence.

The AVA Recommends

PRESIDENT: JILL STEIN. Is there really any need to list Obama's failures? Is it defensible to vote for a person who represents the opposite of what you think you represent? Obama's first term saw his…

‘You Had A Bad Year’

Every few weeks the subject of healthcare appears before the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, and every time it does we are reminded how absurdly expensive and insanely complicated America’s healthcare has become. And Obamacare,…

Off The Record

AS PREDICTED, Mendocino County Superior Court judge Ann Moorman has tossed the state's feeble attempt to bring some order to the wholesale plunder of the Russian River's overdrawn waters by inland Mendocino County's grape and…

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