Good stuff that happened in 2017
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
It’s easy to get caught up in the negative news cycle of the modern age. Every day seems to be fraught with peril and doom, …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
It’s easy to get caught up in the negative news cycle of the modern age. Every day seems to be fraught with peril and doom, …
By Tim Henney
Reader Contriabutor
It’s difficult to describe how powerful several bulging bookcases of vinyl, long-play records have been in shaping my life.
A 1956 Cal-Berkeley co-ed has been …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Food Columnist
Happy New Year! I missed the epic snowstorm last week, but with all the global updates and photos on my social media platforms, I …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Helium, everyone’s second favorite party favor. Because let’s face it, you’re there for the cake, and the clown doesn’t even make the top 15.
At …
By Tim Bearly
Reader Contributor
For countless millennia we homo sapiens have maintained our dominion over nature. We’ve penetrated every corner of the globe, cultivating plants and domesticating animals along …
By Phyllis J. Kardos
Reader Contributor
When did it become OK for a massive industrial complex to entrench itself in the middle of rural residential properties and position itself to …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Health Columnist
Perhaps Lao Tzu said it most plainly: “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
It’s that time …
By Mark Reiner
Reader Contributor
My wife and I are two of those “back-to-the-land” hippies Ben referenced in one of the earlier “Redoubt” articles.
A large portion of us moved …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
If I’ve learned anything in the past three years of running this newspaper, it’s that I have so much to learn about the news industry.…
By A.C. Woolnough
Reader Columnist
Researchers work on some incredible projects as they toil in relative obscurity in their cramped, underfunded labs trying to unlock the mysteries of the brain …
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