Trees are losing their grip and falling wholesale throughout the North Coast as the ground is saturated for the first time in four years, and storm winds are blowing. On the gravel portion of Lambert…
Anderson Valley Advertiser
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Well, they did it again! Yes folks, Gloria Ross, “The Bishop of Boonville,” and her team of volunteers put on a superb…
Howard Zinn greatly admired Fiorello LaGuardia and in the end the two men had important things in common. They grew up in New York City, two generations apart, sons of immigrants. They both flew bombing missions for the U.S. Army -LaGuardia over Italy during World War One, Zinn over occupied France in World War Two- and then reconsidered the worth of those missions. They both spent their lives speaking for people whose voices hardly got heard.
Not all has been peaches and cream in Tucson, AZ this winter, I’ll tell you that much. About a month ago gray clouds obscured the sun for three consecutive days. Temperatures dipped into the lower…
Three years ago an unusual volume was issued by Crown Books. It was signed by Cathie Black, president of Hearst Magazines, and titled “Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in…
Mendocino County deserves a more democratic approach and participatory budgeting that fosters local buy-in for the difficult choices ahead
Mendocino County Board of Supervisors Meeting, February 2, 2010. Agenda Item: Approval of Minutes. * * * Board Chair Carre Brown: I think the Clerk put 6c on the agenda, discussion. There was one item…