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Chris Diaz, The Documentary

I had the opportunity to do a cam-recorded almost hour-long interview with Christopher Diaz at the Mendocino County jail. It's broken up into four parts on a YouTube channel I just established that can be reached at:…

Letters To The Editor

FIRST ENRON, THEN PG&E Editor, Last Spring I was sitting in Fort Bragg’s City Council considering a potential no Smartmeter resolution and listening to a man address the ruthless utility known as PG&E regarding rate…

Farewell To C.H.

I can’t count the times, down the years, that after some new outrage friends would call me and ask, “What happened to Christopher Hitchens?” — the inquiry prem­ised on some supposed change in Hitchens, often…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Never let it be said that a Turkey Vulture is not a noble creature, particularly when it comes to admitting one’s mistakes.…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: Susan Newstead

I met with Susan at her lovely home in Rancho Navarro and we sat down overlooking the meadows outside with a cup of herbal tea and began to chat... Susan was born in Boonville, Missouri…

Zorba & Kurt & Hermann

“As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.” — Nikos Kazantzakis  In 1965, when I was 16 and deeply unhappy, I went…

Is Premier Pacific Vineyards Dead?

Some of the wealthiest and best-connected land speculators in the western hemisphere came together for a conference two months ago in Miami, from October 19-21, to discuss their accelerating feeding frenzy, more like a hoarding…

Valley People

BOONVILLE POSTMISTRESS COLLETTE Hahn is singlehandedly woman-ing the always busy Boonville Post Office, dashing from sorting mail in the back to the counter to wait on people dispatching Christmas packages. We hope she doesn't think…

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