Issue: August 31, 2006
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Horses and healing
Come with us to a place where horses make disabled children feel whole.
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Time to grab the reins
If you like being around horses and kids, why not volunteer at Handi-Riders?
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Revisionist history
Mechoopda Indians pained by county’s effort to deny their existence as tribe.
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Candidates disagree on big issues
The six candidates have some common ground but also some major bones of cordial contention.
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Topping off the towers
How would you paint the downtown water towers if you could?
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Loiterers—don’t come around here no more
Sleeping and loitering in city parks late at night could soon be a thing of the past.
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Downstroke
L.A. flights cleared for takeoff; college papers get censorship protection; cops will be working hard this weekend; West Nile still a problem.
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The county’s bad call
Butte blows it with Mechoopda illegitimacy charge.
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Moving out the disadvantaged
Homelessness is many things, but a crime is not one of them.
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Letters for August 31, 2006
Our always-sharp readers let us know what they think.
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Mother nature
A community garden is for the people, by the people.
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Culture vulture
Culture Vulture joins the kids at the Women’s Club, confirms that Brett Dennen is a great live performer.
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‘There is a better way’
The ‘military-industrial’ approach to forest-fire suppression doesn’t see the forest for the trees.
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Have guitar, will travel
Indie rock legend Barbara Manning catches up with alt-country troubadour Richard Buckner.
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Why I’m not taking up the guitar
Chico Performances has a knack for bringing in top strummers and fingerpickers.
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Days of Lore
Something about Mary and Off Limits, and DJ Mark Arnone puts the butt back into rock.
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The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
Stop procreating, plain and simple.
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Technobabble
Banning the battery bomb, sending scents across the globe and throw another shrimp on the USB port?!
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Johnny Cash
Latest from the late, great Johnny Cash is most somber to date.
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Gjallarhorn
Finnish group Gjallarhorn creates eerie sounds with traditional and modern instrumentation.
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The devil’s seed
Hank III’s Jekyll and Hyde show has something for the kids in black, the cowboys and the grandmas.
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Henri does Big Al
In a world of corporate chains and big-box sameness, Big Al’s Drive In remains a classic.
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All in the family
Family dysfunction and storyline take some time to sort out.
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The Sore Losers
The Sore Losers has more fishnet and fetish gear than we deserve.
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