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‘Food Sovereignty’ In NorCal: A Conversation With Raj Patel

Raj Patel's first book, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, can be read as a ten-chapter exegesis on the ills of global capitalism, as manifested by its gut-wrenching stranglehold over…

Cruzin’ For A Bust

  It has taken more than a year just to get to the preliminary hearing in the Juda and Hugo Cruz case. Juda is the father, Hugo is the son. They are co-defendants. The Cruzes…

Off The Record

This Week: Return to Jonestown & the Bari Bombing; a Westport weed battle; Aanestad & the KZYX nambo-pambos; and much more

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. “No power in Boonville” was the miserable word around the Valley last Sunday morning. Following the heavy storms of Saturday night/Sunday morning,…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: Kelly Hiatt

I met with Kelley in her classroom at the High School where she has worked full-time as a teacher’s aid in the Special Education Department for the past twenty-five years. She made a lovely cup…

Spy Rock Memories, Part 4

As soon as you give something a name, it begins to die, says an old Chinese proverb, and its corollary might be that as soon as you get comfortable somewhere, things start going wrong. I…

Bosco: The Curse That Keeps On Giving

In the more than a third of a century since Douglas H. Bosco first carved himself out as a fixture of the California North Coast's power structure, one of the surest guides to locating systemic…

How I Met The KZYX News Department

KZYX is advertising for a news director. Paul Hanson has resigned. I hope Hanson's departure wasn't inspired by an odd few hours two weeks ago that began with Hanson's visit to our office. Here's what…

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