AVA Selections Archive

"Chiselers Smith & Colfax Denounce Grand Jury"

by Mark Scaramella, May 14, 2008

"Grand Jury Accuses Supervisors Smith and Colfax of Intentional Misappropriation"

by Mark Scaramella, May 7, 2008

"Book Notes"

by Bruce Anderson, April 23, 2008

"Heads Roll At Free Speech Radio"

by Bruce Anderson, April 16, 2008

"Dope: A Dialogue"

by Pebbles Trippet & Bruce Anderson, April 9, 2008

"Winter Soldier"

Letter to the Editor, March 26, 2008

"The Mall Man's Dreams For Ukiah"

by Mark Scaramella, March 19, 2008

"Inside The Hamburg Pot Bust"

by Mark Scaramella, March 5, 2008

"Culture Notes"

by Bruce Anderson, February 20, 2008

"Martin Mileck's Potter Valley Dump"

by Mark Scaramella, February 20, 2008

"Rusty Norvell, 1930-2008"

by Bruce Anderson, February 13, 2008

"Personal Encounters With The Homeless"

by Bruce Anderson, February 6, 2008

"Here Come The Smartmeters"

by Todd Walton, January 30, 2008

"Steve Talbot Comes To Boonville"

by Bruce Anderson, January 30, 2008

"Watershed Group Update"

by Mark Scaramella, January 30, 2008

"Whole New Kind Of Watershed Group"

by Mark Scaramella, January 2, 2008

2007

"Sister"

by Todd Walton, December 12, 2007

"The Crab Season"

by Jim Martin, November 21, 2007

"Will Mendo Ever Again Have Affordable Housing?"

by Mark Scaramella, November 7, 2007

"What Really Happened To Marvin Noble"

by Mark Scaramella & Bruce Anderson, October 24, 2007

"Ukiah The Next Day" [Part 2]

by Pete Evangelatos, October 17, 2007

"Ukiah After Dark" [Part 1]

by Pete Evangelatos, October 10, 2007

"A True History Of Anderson Valley"

by T. Albert Strobridge, October 10, 2007

"Water Woes"

by Bruce Anderson, October 3, 2007

"The Mendo Pot Chronicles"

by Mark Scaramella, October 3, 2007

"The Green, Green Hills Of Anderson Valley"

by Bruce Anderson, August 22, 2007

"Not Connecting the Dots"

by Bruce Anderson, August 22, 2007

"Travelers, Sour & Sentimental"

by David Yearsley, August 8, 2007

"Where Are They, Jimmy?"

by Bruce Anderson, August 1, 2007

"The Return of Bruce Anderson"

interviewed by Mark Scaramella, July 4, 2007

2006

"Mountain Lions In Our Midst"

by David Severn, July 26, 2006

"Bird Flu Chicken Poop"

by Spec MacQuayde, July 19, 2006

"To Catch a Poacher"

by Tim Stelloh, July 12, 2006

"Supervisors Have Ball Removed"

by Mark Scaramella, July 5, 2006

"Thirty Pages of Purple Chicken Scratch"

by Tim Stelloh, July 5, 2006

"The White Ranch Business"

by Freda Moon & Tim Stelloh, June 28, 2006

"The Blind Leading the Ophthalmologists"

by Mark Scaramella, June 28, 2006

"Disappeared"

by Bruce Patterson, June 21, 2006

"The Bad Neighbor"

by Freda Moon, June 14, 2006

"Fear & Loathing at the Mendo Historical Review Board"

by Tim Stelloh, June 7, 2006

"The Press Democrat's 'Get Vroman' Campaign"

by Keith Faulder, May 31, 2006

"The Staff Runs the Show"

by Mark Scaramella, May 24, 2006

"Don't Bite the Hands that Feed Us"

by Dick Meister, May 17, 2006

"Bergner's Liquidation"

by David Severn, May 10, 2006

"Dope, Money & Fire"

by David Severn, May 3, 2006

"Mammoth Buys Local™"

by Spec MacQuayde, April 5, 2006

"Sir! No Sir!"

by Bruce Patterson, March 1, 2006

"Supplementary Coast Hospital Board Meeting Notes"

by Mark Scaramella, February 15, 2006

"Ballard & the BobbleHeads Circle the Wagons"

by Enrique Sanicky, February 1, 2006

"Hospital Footnotes"

by Mark Scaramella, February 1, 2006

"The Raps and the Wrap Up" [Part 5]

by Bruce Anderson, January 18, 2006

"Who Are These Kids?" [Part 4]

by Bruce Anderson, January 11, 2006

"Mendo Justice Gets the Case" [Part 3]

by Bruce Anderson, January 4, 2006

2005

"The Interview; The Victim" [Part 2]

by Bruce Anderson, December 28, 2005

"One Murder, Four Deaths" [Part 1]

by Bruce Anderson, December 21, 2005

"Why I Marched"

Letter to the Editor, September 28, 2005

"Tijuana, 1958"

by Bruce Patterson, July 20, 2005

"Alternate Realities at Coast Hospital"

by Mark Scaramella, July 13, 2005

"Blow Up an Offshore Oil Platform?"

by Mark Massara, March 9, 2005

"Patriotism"

by Bruce Patterson, March 2, 2005

"How Owners Destroyed the NHL"

by Dave Zirin, February 23, 2005

"Trillions Taken"

Letter to the Editor, February 16, 2005

"Coleman's Book Stirs the Pot"

by Bruce Anderson, February 9, 2005

"Father Lascivious"

by Mark Scaramella, February 2, 2005

"Witness at an Execution Protest"

by Alistair Bland, January 26, 2005

"The Soul Searchers"

by Crawdad Nelson, January 19, 2005

"How to Stop War"

Letter to the Editor, January 12, 2005

"The Dangerous Lessons of the Tobie Case"

by Mark Scaramella, January 5, 2005

"Wild Cohees"

by Bruce Patterson, January 5, 2005

2004

"Korea: Forgotten Nuclear Threats"

by Bruce Cumings, December 29, 2004

"The Lehan Matter"

by Mark Scaramella, December 15, 2004

"Hatchet Job, Times Style"

by Mark Scaramella, December 8, 2004

"1975 Murder Solved"

by Mark Scaramella, December 1, 2004

"Fallujah, The 21st Century Guernica"

by Saul Landau, November 24, 2004

"Danny Kuny Looks Back"

Interview by David Severn, November 17, 2004

"A Real Mountain Lion Story"

by Steve Sparks, November 10, 2004

"Journey to Vietnam, 2004"

by Michael Connelly, November 3, 2004

"The Naked Painted People"

by Saffron Blue Fraser, October 27, 2004

"The AVA Recommends"

Voter Guide, October 20, 2004

"Neither God nor Country"

by Bruce Patterson, October 20, 2004

"Blather-Fest in Ukiah"

by Mark Scaramella, October 13, 2004

"Should Radioactive Waste Become 'Incidental'"

Letter to the Editor, October 13, 2004

"The Rub"

by Bruce Patterson, October 6, 2004

"The National Museum of the American Indian"

by David Severn, September 29, 2004

"Napa Wine Scammer Forced To Pay Up"

by Mark Scaramella, September 29, 2004

"I Am Michael Toms"

Letter to the Editor, September 22, 2004

"Captain Fathom's Journey"

by Alan Graham, September 22, 2004

"War Crimes?"

by Bruce Patterson, September 15, 2004

"A Whiff of Regulation — An Odor of Contention"

by Mark Scaramella, September 15, 2004

"Mendo Discrimination, 1942"

by David Severn, September 8, 2004

"Is Coast Hospital Honoring its Promises?"

by Mark Scaramella, September 8, 2004

"The Border Patrol"

by Mike Brannon, September 1, 2004

"Eddy Lepp Busted by DEA"

by Fred Gardner, August 25, 2004

"The View from the Mainline"

AVA News Service, August 25, 2004

"Fishermen Lose a Friend"

by Jim Martin, August 18, 2004

"Deputy Squires"

by Bruce Anderson, August 18, 2004

"Vets as Stooges"

by Bruce Patterson, August 11, 2004

"Felipe's Protest"

by Mark Scaramella, August 11, 2004

"Run Ricky Run"

by Fred Gardner, August 4, 2004

"Any Future for the Green Party?"

by Paul Encimer, August 4, 2004

"It Happened in Mendocino County"

by Rose Trillin, August 4, 2004

"Melt Down: Fahrenheit 9/11"

by Susan Davis, July 28, 2004

"My Wild Idaho"

by Susanna Bowser, July 28, 2004

"Charmian"

by Mark Scaramella, July 28, 2004

"The Bonanza"

by Bruce Patterson, July 28, 2004

"Why to Vote for Nader"

by Matt Gonzalez, July 21, 2004

"A Prison Visit"

by Michael Connelly, July 21, 2004

"Too Much of a Good Thing"

by Rocky Mulligan, July 21, 2004

"The Carson Spur"

by Bruce Patterson, July 21, 2004

"Anderson Valley's Richest People"

by David Severn, July 14, 2004

"Polly's Out of Crackers"

by Mark Scaramella & Bruce Anderson, July 14, 2004

"The Kool-Aid Consensus"

Letter to the Editor, July 14, 2004

"Moderately Bent"

by Bruce Patterson, July 7, 2004

"Where Are the Files, Sue?"

by Bruce Anderson, July 7, 2004

"Whatever Works"

Letter to the Editor, July 7, 2004

"Swifts and Swallows"

by Rob Lee, July 7, 2004

"Smoke Bans Are Frauds"

by John Jonik, June 30, 2004

"Mule Creek State Prison"

by Mark Sprinkle, June 30, 2004

"Up the Eel River Canyon"

by Tim Freeman, June 30, 2004

"Found Money"

by Mark Scaramella, June 23, 2004

"Bad Journalism Meets Government Lies"

by Nicholas Von Hoffman, June 23, 2004

"Just Looking, Thanks"

by Dick Meister, June 23, 2004

"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished"

by Mark Scaramella, June 16, 2004

"Registering Gay Roosters"

by Gregg Stevens, June 16, 2004

"Movie Review: The Day After Tomorrow"

by Bruce Anderson, June 16, 2004

"Remembering Ray"

by Chili Bill, June 16, 2004

"Snacktime for Ronzo"

Memo of the Week, June 16, 2004

"Oregon, First Impressions"

by Bruce Anderson, June 9, 2004

"The Cruelest Tax"

by Nicholas Von Hoffman, June 9, 2004

"The Bite Is On"

by Jim Martin, June 9, 2004

"The Warm Wonderfuls"

by Bruce Anderson, June 2, 2004

"Boxcar Radical"

by Martin Murie, June 2, 2004

"Vince Taylor on Jackson State Forest"

Interviewed by Bruce Anderson, May 26, 2004

"Gertrude Bell and the Birth of Iraq"

by Chris Calder, May 26, 2004

"A Goddam Disgrace"

by Bruce Anderson, May 26, 2004

"Death and Dishonor"

by Dianna Katherine Dearborn, May 26, 2004

"Why the County's Broke"

by Mark Scaramella, May 26, 2004

"The Beheading Video"

by Scott Soriano, May 19, 2004

"Germany"

by David Yearsley, May 19, 2004

"Bring Back Logging"

by Bruce Anderson, May 19, 2004

"Pot Grower Calls Cops on Self"

Crime of the Week, May 19, 2004

"Zombie Patriotism"

by Bruce Patterson, May 12, 2004

"Beating Brown Black & Blue"

Nutballs of the Week, May 12, 2004

"Turd Watch"

by Bruce Anderson, May 5, 2004

"My Way or the Highway"

Crime of the Week, May 5, 2004

"Marijuana, Asparagus, Cocaine"

by Fred Gardner, May 5, 2004

"Fort Bragg Found a Salmon"

by Jim Martin, May 5, 2004

"World's Second-Oldest Profession"

by Bruce Anderson, April 28, 2004

"Contractors with Guns"

by Nicholas Von Hoffman, April 28, 2004

"The Stories Behind the Stories"

by Bruce Anderson, April 21, 2004

"The Trough of Love"

by Zack Anderson, April 21, 2004

"The Swami's Volvo"

Letter to the Editor, April 21, 2004

"Front Porches"

by Eugene Walter, April 21, 2004

"Coddling Condee"

Letter to the Editor, April 14, 2004

"O'Shaughnessy's / Presidio Hospital / Hunters Point"

by Fred Gardner, April 14, 2004

"The Phantom Railroad"

by Bruce Anderson, April 7, 2004

"Guerrilla War Iraq-Style"

by Patrick Cockburn, April 7, 2004

"No, John, I'm Not Ready"

by Zack Anderson, April 7, 2004

"Term Limits and Crocodile Tears"

by Bruce Anderson, March 31, 2004

"The Man Who Killed the School Board"

by Clinton T. Duffy, March 24, 2004

"A Rare Win for the People" [Part 2]

by Roanne Withers, March 24, 2004

"Crank, and Anderson Valley" [Part 2]

by Russel Norvell, March 24, 2004

"Stop Wal-Mart — Now!"

by Dick Meister, March 17, 2004

"Cold Creek Compost On Trial" [Part 1]

by Roanne Withers, March 17, 2004

"Anderson Valley's Plague" [Part 1]

by Russel Norvell, March 17, 2004

"The Freedman Follies"

by Mark Scaramella, March 10, 2004

"Off the Record"

by Bruce Anderson, March 10, 2004

"Meth Bromide"

by Dick Meister, March 10, 2004

"Sulphur Springs, Utah"

by Dayla Hepting, March 10, 2004

"Taking Liberty"

by Bruce Patterson, March 10, 2004

"The Uproar Over Nader"

by Alexander Cockburn, March 3, 2004

"The Beautiful Saguaro"

by Lee Reynolds, March 3, 2004

"Our Frivolous Supervisors"

by Bruce Anderson, February 25, 2004

"The Grocery Workers' Fight"

by Dick Meister, February 25, 2004

"Miguel's Own Recognizance"

by Mark Scaramella, February 25, 2004

"Daughter of Uranium"

by Dayla Hepting, February 25, 2004

"Presidential Primary Election"

The AVA Recommends, February 25, 2004

"Bookmobile Brouhaha"

by Bruce Anderson, February 18, 2004

"Vietnam Marijuana Iraq"

by Fred Gardner, February 18, 2004

"The Sad Saga of Ignacio Chapela"

by John Ross, February 18, 2004

"Fishing Alligator Alley"

by Jim Martin, February 18, 2004

"It's Time To Recall California"

by Tim Holt, February 11, 2004

"One Hand Clapping"

Letter to the Editor, February 11, 2004

"Fair & True Deficit Reduction"

by Paul O'Lague and John Bachar, February 11, 2004

"My Friend Howard"

by Bruce Longstreet, February 4, 2004

"Monster, the Movie"

by Bruce Anderson, February 4, 2004

"The Cat Came Back"

by Miguel Lanigan, February 4, 2004

"March on Washington, 1965"

by Dayla Hepting, January 28, 2004

"Mendo's Vagina-Friendly Cops"

Great Moments in Public Radio, January 28, 2004

"Train Trekking to the Great White Bears"

by Katy Tahja, January 28, 2004

"GMOs Are Not the Problem"

by Ted Dace, January 21, 2004

"Where's the Beef?"

by Dayla Hepting, January 21, 2004

"Martin Luther King: Terrorist"

by Geov Parrish, January 21, 2004

"Judi Bari Tells All"

by Judi Bari, January 14, 2004

"Newspaper Politics in a Small Town"

by Philip Murphy, January 14, 2004

"I Bombed Judi Bari"

by Mike Sweeney, as told to Bruce Anderson, January 7, 2004

"The Politics of Tree Theft"

by Jeffrey St. Clair, January 7, 2004

"It's the Cow Feed, Stupid!"

by John Stauber, January 7, 2004

"Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman"

by Zack Anderson, January 7, 2004

2003

"I Was a Communist for the FBI"

by Mike Sweeney, as told to Bruce Anderson, December 31, 2003

"War"

by Eugene Debs, December 31, 2003

"Chomsky's Misplaced Emphasis"

Letter to the Editor, December 31, 2003

"Mendocino Not-So-Unified's New School Board"

by Bruce Anderson, December 24, 2003

"Mexicans and Marijuana"

by Dale Gieringer, December 24, 2003

"Two Years and $22,000 Later"

by Bruce Anderson, December 17, 2003

"The Capture of Saddam"

by Patrick Cockburn, December 17, 2003

"Post-Election Hangover: Crashing Matt's Party with Gavin's Cuz"

by Harmon Leon, December 17, 2003

"Buried Alive"

by Bruce Patterson, December 10, 2003

"The Virtue of Lawlessness"

by Fred Reed, December 10, 2003

"Rainbow Pete v. Coast Hospital"

by Mark Scaramella and Bruce Anderson, December 3, 2003

"Conspiracy Queen"

Letter to the Editor, December 3, 2003

"Dirt Cheap"

Book Review, December 3, 2003

"The Children of God"

by John Ross, December 3, 2003

"Happy Trails"

Letter to the Editor, December 3, 2003

"Selling Books in Baghdad"

by Patrick Cockburn, November 26, 2003

"Li'l Red Riding Hood Revisited"

by Kate Coleman, November 26, 2003

"Bob Williams Remembers Judi Bari"

Memo of the Week, November 19, 2003

"Force Protection"

by Bruce Patterson, November 19, 2003

"Drop 'Under God'"

by Peter Miguel Camejo, November 19, 2003

"Fighting the Biggest Fire in CA History"

by Colin Wilson, November 12, 2003

"Jerry"

by Charmian, November 12, 2003

"Sailing from Frisco to Fort Bragg"

by Gregg Stevens, November 12, 2003

"In the Spirit of Dunkirk"

by Zack Anderson, November 5, 2003

"The Set-Up"

by Paul Jorgenson, November 5, 2003

"The Real Jihad"

by Eleanor Cooney, November 5, 2003

"Mendo School Board Election"

by Bruce Anderson, November 5, 2003

"Dope, Dopes & Duckhorn"

by David Severn, October 29, 2003

"Noyo Harbor Confidential"

by Jim Martin, October 29, 2003

"Jock Justice"

by Douglas George, October 29, 2003

"The Austrian Clinton"

Letter to the Editor, October 22, 2003

"The Bachelor's Anthem"

by Del Franklin, October 22, 2003

"Recall Election Notes"

by Bruce Anderson, October 15, 2003

"The Alaska Railroad"

by Michael Kalantarian, October 15, 2003

"Public Drunkenness and Disorderly Conduct"

Sheriff's Log, October 15, 2003

"The Burriquillo Nest"

by Katherine Gasquez, October 8, 2003

"Robert C. 'Chipmunk' Glover"

Obituary, October 8, 2003

"Recalling Camejo"

by Bruce Patterson, October 1, 2003

"Edward Said Dead at 67"

by Alexander Cockburn, October 1, 2003

"Harvest Time"

by Philip Murphy, September 24, 2003

"Black Gold"

Letter to the Editor, September 24, 2003

"Seniors Set Record Time for Sinkyone"

by Bruce Anderson, September 17, 2003

"Political Type"

by Jim Shields, September 17, 2003

"Cry California"

by Mike Davis, September 10, 2003

"Bergner's Pump, Our Creek"

by Bruce Patterson, September 10, 2003

"The Great Republic of Rough and Ready"

by Arthur Winfield Knight, September 10, 2003

"Trespass"

by Martin Murie, September 3, 2003

"Organizing Wal-Mart"

by Dick Meister, September 3, 2003

"A Day on the Navarro"

by David Severn, August 27, 2003

"Can a Laytonville Mom Prevent AIDS in Africa?"

by Roanne Withers, August 20 & 27, 2003

"Judi Bari Bomber Timeline"

Letter to the Editor, August 20, 2003

"War Pimps: A Confidence Game on Iraq"

by Jeffrey St. Clair, August 13, 2003

"Sacrificial GIs"

by Bruce Patterson, August 6, 2003

"Chemo-Hubris"

Letter to the Editor, August 6, 2003

"SWEENEYDIDIT.COM"

by Bruce Anderson, August 6, 2003

"The Wrong Kind of Growth"

by Nicholas von Hoffman, August 6, 2003

"My Birthday"

by Bruce Anderson, July 30, 2003

"Now Comes the Afterscam"

Letter to the Editor, July 30, 2003

"Noyo Harbor Confidential"

by Jim Martin, July 30, 2003

"A Simpleton's Guide to Deficit Spending"

by Bruce Anderson, July 23, 2003

"Life at the Fort Bragg Mill"

by Crawdad Nelson, July 23, 2003

"Then Is Now"

Letter to the Editor, July 16, 2003

"Harmonies, Old and New"

by Susan Davis, July 16, 2003

"Read These Books"

by Bruce Anderson, July 9, 2003

"Technological Massacre II"

by Saul Landau, July 9, 2003

"Mendo Budget Jumbo Mumbo"

by Mark Scaramella, July 2, 2003

"Belt Tightening, MCOE Style"

by Bruce Anderson, July 2, 2003

"Techno-Burger, Hold the Fries"

by Saul Landau, June 25, 2003

"Los Angeles in Two Parts"

by Zack Anderson, June 18, 2003

"Cook's Secret Apology"

by Mark Scaramella, June 18, 2003

"Eugene Graduation Ceremony"

by Bruce Anderson, June 11, 2003

"Mendo Budget Follies: Blind Men with Box Cutters"

by Mark Scaramella, June 11, 2003

"CannabiNotes: Ed Rosenthal's Arguments on Appeal"

by Fred Gardner, June 11, 2003

"Journalism Examines Its Conscience"

by Bruce Anderson, June 4, 2003

"Guess Who's Having Dinner Alone Next Mother's Day"

Sheriff's Log, June 4, 2003

"Deputy Gander's Halloween Party"

by Bruce Anderson, May 28, 2003

"Small Town Etiquette"

by Eric Bergeson, May 28, 2003

"Dan Amstutz and the Looting of Iraqi Agriculture"

by Jeffrey St. Clair, May 21, 2003

"Upcoming TV Shows"

by Paul Krassner, May 21, 2003

"Buying Dope in Humco"

by Bud Green, May 14, 2003

"Cow Patty Bingo!"

AV Youth Program Benefit, May 14, 2003

"Anderson Valley Skylines"

by Bruce Patterson, May 7, 2003

"Ask Mr. Wizard"

Letter to the Editor, April 30, 2003

"Dear Dad"

Letter to the Editor, April 23, 2003

2002

"The Judi Bari Trial: A Radio Debate"

John Clarke v. Bruce Anderson, May 9, 2002

"Steve Ahl vs. Ukiah"

by Bruce Anderson, February 28, 2002

2000

"Manhunt: Anderson Pursues His Demon"

by Alexander Cockburn, March 8, 2000

"Who Bombed Judi Bari?"

Bruce Anderson interviews Steve Talbot, January 19, 2000