May 15th is the day Emily Dickinson died. She hadn’t left her Amherst, Massachusetts home in 21 years. Perhaps it will be of some solace to struggling poets to know that scarcely ten of her…
Anderson Valley Advertiser
WILLIAM OPHULS, in his bracingly pessimistic book, “Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail,” identifies the primary reasons for collapse as: “Ecological Exhaustion, Exponential Growth, Expedited Entropy, Excessive Complexity, Moral Decay and Practical Failure.” Ring any bells…
The first thing I saw when I arrived at Henry Hill’s memorial was a live pink poodle on a leash with a pink haired lady in a pink satin blouse on the other end (Jonesy).…
KGO TV ran a major feature story about the folly of the Willits bypass on their evening news Friday night. Bypass opponents are thrilled by the blunt tone of the high-profile report which made the…
THE GOOD NEWS. Years of barn sales and crab feeds have gotten the dedicated parishoners of St. Elizabeth Seton's Catholic Church to the design stage of their new church off Anderson Valley Way. Jerry Cox…
In 2010, Bernard Meyers was the only NCRA director to publicly say that taxpayers are being ripped off by a sweetheart deal benefiting a private company that includes former congressman Doug Bosco — who happens to be the NCRA’s attorney.
The Public Defender’s Office in this county doesn't do much to earn their nice salaries. A recent letter in the AVA from a man at the jail complained at length about how lazy the County-paid…