Oil Spill Fiasco Is A Wakeup Call
By Don Deane
A mysterious left hand turn instead of right by the 902-foot Cosco Busan caused the largest oil spill in twenty years on Nov. 7 in the San Francisc Feisty Marin General Will Make It On Its Own
By Karen Nakamura
Between 2009 and 2010, the Marin Healthcare District will regain control of Marin General Hospital from the private nonprofit Sutter Health. Despi Soldiers and Suicide
By Gene Stoltzfus
http://www.gstoltzfus.blogspot.com/
Each week in 2005, 120 persons who had served in the US military killed themselves according to CBS news this Back From The War Into Homelessness
By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Black Commentator
The report this past week confirmed what veterans advocates have been saying for some time: one quarter of the homeless are veter Pollution Is Drying Up The Rain
By Karen Nakamura
Is the Atlanta drought the result of jet pollution? Environmentalists might look at the ground and sky above the Atlanta airport, a huge east coast Dry Times Are Coming For California
By Timothy Quinn, Executive Director
Association of California Water Agencies
When the rest of the world thinks of Southern California, it thinks of beaches, of swimming pools, of wate Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuary's Beach Watch Volunteer Program Recognized In Spill
In testimony at the November 19th Congressional Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Field Hearing in San Francisco on the Cosco Radioactive Ammunition Fired in Middle East May Claim More Lives Than Hiroshima and Nagasaki
By Sherwood Ross
By firing radioactive ammunition, the U.S., U.K., and Israel may have triggered a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East that, over time, will prove Second Annual Synchronized GlobalOrgasm for Peace
In 2006, the first Global Orgasm for Peace focused on the escalation of tensions between the Govern-Men of the USA and Iran. One year later, some o Litmus Test For Wannabes
By Antonio R. Serna
There are currently seventeen presidential wannabes from our two major political parties who are trying to woo the American electorate into electi Cargo Ships In Paradise: Shipping Lanes Threaten Our Yosemites On The Sea
By Robert Ovetz, Ph.D., Executive Director, Seaflow
Imagine if someone put a superhighway through Yosemite.
That's exactly what's happening just outside the Golden Gate. Our Yosemites on the sea Democrats Could Lose
It ALL In 2008
For Congressional Democrats, the train has already
left the station--and they're not on board.
By Dave Lindorff
A year after the election that gave them control of both houses of Congress, they are exposed as a feckless bunch of frauds posing as an opposition Manufacturing Our Immigrants
By Edward W. Miller, M.D.
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lam Caves, Malls and Holidays
By Frank Scott
The consumption frenzy that is the annual celebration of market religion once began after Thanksgiving, but as economic problems grow the season of MooTown News
Year-End Reflections
By Judy Borello
When I was a tyke, my grandmother, Anna, whose family farmed in Pleasanton, told me, "When you're old enough to vote, always support your firemen b The Media and Class Warfare
By Norman Solomon
A few decades ago, upwards of one-third of the American workforce was unionized. Now the figure is down around 10 percent. And news media are cen Checking In On Simac's Political Career
When last heard from in the pages of the COASTAL Post, Simac had entered the political arena. Tossed in his hat for the Marin Community College dis Blood Politics
By Dan Stone
If those who believe that Pelosi, Reid and the Democrats are continuing to fund the war, and maintaining the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq so Health Insurance Crisis Hits Veterans: 1.8 Million Are Uninsured And At Risk
By Dr. Henrie M. Treadwell
ATLANTA-The health crisis in America, which has left 47 million people without health insurance, is devastating veterans and their families. What does Rain Down 90 Percent In China Rice Belt
BEIJING (Reuters) - Large areas of south China are suffering from serious drought, with water levels on two major rivers in rice-growing provinces dr John F. Kennedy's Warning To The Free Press
The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secre ATTENTION: MARIN COUNTY PROPERTY OWNERS
Monday, December 10, 2007 is the final day the First Installment of the 2007-2008 property taxes can be paid without penalty. The tax is now due and o Grand Jury Applicants Invited
Interested applicants are invited to apply for the 2008-2009 Marin County Grand Jury. The Grand Jury is composed of 19 persons who agree to serve 17th Annual Bolinas World Faire
Everyone is cordially invited to attend the 17th annual Bolinas World Faire, held December 15th & 16th, at the Bolinas Community Center, in beautif Desmond Tutu Likens Israeli Actions to Apartheid
By Adrianne Appel
BOSTON - South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu compared conditions in Palestine to those of South Africa under apartheid, and called on I Tom Chestnut 1918-1907
Thompson Van Valkenburgh Chestnut, a resident of Bolinas, a musician, teacher, humanist and conservationist passed away on November 2 of natural ca Military To Wounded Soldier: Give Back Your Bonus
By Marty Griffin
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) _
The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to Letters To The Editor
Board Needs To Support Papermill Center
I want to start this as an open letter of thanks to my wife, Trish Callo, for her time on the board of the Dozens of Bay Area Bird on Latest Audubon WatchList
Emeryville, CA - Dozens of Bay Area birds appear on the latest Audubon WatchList of 217 imperiled birds in the continental United States and Hawai We Are Publishing!
By Don Deane
I sit here at my desk with the December edition of the paper nearly complete and find that neither of the printers will do its job of creating the
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