Time passes and you may not know that the Voice helped break the Paraquat story in ’78 (see yesterday’s New York Times front page), and was also the first publication outside California to report on Prop 215, the 1996 ballot measure that legalized marijuana for medical use. Are these stories accessible online?
If you’re old enough to remember Jack Newfield, you might dig this:
https://fredgardner.bandcamp.com/track/im-jack-newfield
and if you’re not, please forward to some of the oldtimers who might remember Jack.
Best wishes,
Fred Gardner [email protected]
Peter Bourne on the front page of the Village Voice, May 8, 1978
