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A 30-second spot. The screen shows a poster for the movie Casablanca.  Dooley Wilson is singing “… You must remember this…”  QUICK DISSOLVE to footage  in which Bogart, at a table in his cafe, is being...

A Conversation with Supervisor Terence “Kayo” Hallinan  (11/13/91 in the Anderson Valley Advertiser) AVA: Your plan was to tax The Giants and the 49ers to help pay for high school sports? Hallinan: Yes –high school and...

After posting this memoir, I moved from the East Bay to a town in Sonoma County. Unpacking, I’ve come across some items that I would included in the Kayo Chronicles. Here they are: • A 1978 Christmas card from the Hallinan...

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...