How important is the pain of the past? Should people strive to confront it or try to forget it? Such questions routinely underlie news stories and media debates. Depending on the spin, history can seem…
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Three hundred protesters gathered at Union Square in the heart of San Francisco’s shopping district on the “biggest shopping day of the year” to protest the Gap owners involvement in the logging industry, calling for…
Dominic Affinito says he didn’t punch Fort Bragg City Councilman-elect Dan Gjerde repeatedly in the back and threaten to kill him Thursday, November 12th in the Fort Bragg City Hall at 1:30 in the afternoon.…
Didn’t know the man myself, but by the time I arrived in Mendocino County in 1970, the Rev was already a local big shot. He was throwing big ecumenical dinners with everyone from the heavy…
Sharon Graham and her husband managed to buy a house on ten Covelo acres, raise three children, buy a few things, accumulate a little money for their retirement. They aren’t much different from other working…
After Saddam Hussein's pledge of full cooperation with UN weapons inspectors led President Clinton to cancel air attacks at the last minute in mid-November, a strong wave of frustration swept through American news media. The…
I’ve been away from my home in Anderson Valley for almost two months now, staying in a suburb northwest of Chicago, so far a distance from the city that half of this town remains farmland…
MONDAY NIGHT, as the first thunder rumbled up Anderson Valley’s spine north to south, The Major ran into my office to say, “I’m shutting down my computer. The lightening might fry it.” Then he launched…