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Grape-pocalypse: Changing wine drinking habits impact California’s iconic industry
In Northern California, a steady drip of wine industry reportage has chronicled five years of vineyard sales, declining real estate values, consolidations, the retirement...
The ICE Men Cometh
Part One: Initiation Into the Fear
My “handler” was a friend of a friend of a friend. That delicate linkage was a conduit of trust.
Trust...
Flight of the Monarch
Alongside the endangered redwood, the monarch butterfly is a symbol of our land. The monarch haunts our dreams.
Born on the 4th of July: America’s Horoscope
On July 4, America celebrates her 249th birthday. Ah, but what American—left, right or center, is in a mood to celebrate our political union?
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