Author: Fred Gardner

In the AVA 4/20/25 “Stealing From the Rich: The Home-Stake Oil Swindle” by David C. McClintick (Evans, 1977) recounts how a Tulsa, Oklahoma lawyer named Robert Trippet masterminded the most lucrative Ponzi scheme of...

  By Bill Drake, illustrated by Terry Rutledge, calligraphy by Jim Drake. Published in 1970 by the Agrarian Reform Company, Eugene, Oregon.

This breadbox –an old garage-sale score– was upside down when I unloaded it in Kenwood. And I wondered if the artist was camouflaging the map of Africa.  

In advance of tonight’s debate, the New York Times featured a “guest essay” by Donna Brazile in support of Kamala Harris. Brazile has the same Teflon coating that protected Judge Judy (AIDS patients...

Weed’s Black Neighborhood If you’ve only driven past Weed on Hwy 5, or stopped to take a photo of Mt. Shasta and have a cup of coffee at the Hi-Lo Cafe, you might not have known that the town had “a thriving...