Quantcast
Channel: Anderson Valley Advertiser

Trump Sends Marines to L.A. on 4th Day of Immigration Protests

by Edgar Sandoval (The New York Times) The Trump administration is deploying a battalion of 700 Marines to Los Angeles to protect federal property and personnel, the United States Northern Command said...

View Article


Renouncing Cherished Beliefs

There’s a fresh breeze in the air with mild gusts cleansing America of rot and decay from years of progressive ideology’s stranglehold on a civilized, well-governed republic. We shall survive. Our...

View Article


Off the Record 6/10/2025

THE STORY about the sale of the Press Democrat to the predatory hedge fund which has already destroyed local papers here in oblivious Mendo, soft-pedals criticism of the paper's current owners, Darius...

View Article

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 6/10/2025

ISOLATED thunderstorm threat for Trinity, Del Norte, and NE Mendocino County continues Tuesday afternoon into the evening. Warm temperatures continue Tuesday, however, a cooling trend will keep...

View Article

Coining Anti-Semitism

There was no such thing as “semitism” when Wilhelm Marr, a German journalist/political organizer, coined the term “antisemitism” to mean prejudice against Jews. When Marr founded “The Anti-Semitic...

View Article


Politics, Priorities And Pinches

It's impossible not to recognize the seemingly institutional dysfunction in the governing process whether it be at the local, state or federal level. Our elected representatives and their staffs far...

View Article

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 6/11/2025

INTERIOR temperatures forecast to diminish each day through Friday. Coastal stratus coverage becoming less through the week with clear skies possible Friday afternoon. Stronger winds are to be expected...

View Article

A Nuts And Bolts Adventure: Exploring Hop Flat

I began hearing about Hop Flat, the short-lived logging and millcamp west of the rocky bluff at Highway 128’s milepost 5.50, when I first moved to The Valley in 1971. The old Navarro woodsman bachelor…

View Article


Sister Jane Kelly Dies At Age 95

Sister Jane Kelly, an iconic Catholic nun who forged the creation of Ukiah’s Plowshares center for the homeless and helped foster expanded social justice ministries in Mendocino County, has died at age...

View Article


Mendocino County Today: Thursday 6/12/2025

INTERIOR daytime high temperatures forecast to diminish each day through Friday. Coastal stratus coverage becoming less through the week with clear skies possible Friday afternoon. Breezy winds are to...

View Article

Breaking: NY Times: Israelis Bomb Iran Nuclear Facilities

Live Updates: Israeli Strikes Target Iran’s Nuclear Program Iran said the commander in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was among top officials killed. Israel says it was a pre-emptive...

View Article

Valley People 6/13/2025

THE LONG-DELAYED LAMBERT LANE/ROBINSON CREEK BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT IS UNDERWAY. Crews began prep work this week behind the Boonville Hotel to prepare for the replacement of the existing Bailey...

View Article

Supervisor Mulheren’s Cock-Eyed Budget Optimism

Supervisor Maureen Mulheren posted an hilariously optimistic County budget summary on her facebook page on Thursday, following Tuesday’s budget presentation to the Board: “At this week’s Board of...

View Article


Mendocino County Today: Friday 6/13/2025

Breezy | Annexation Planning | Pinesap | Weird Stuff | Bragg DMV? | Public Hearing | Comptche BBQ | Millsite Misinformation | Free Show | Cabinet Fit | Vocal Recital | Lilies | Ed Notes | Frontier...

View Article

NYT: Missiles Hit Tel Aviv in Retaliation for Strikes on Nuclear Sites

Iranian ballistic missiles struck at least seven sites around Tel Aviv on Friday night, injuring at least 22 people, according to Israeli military officials and firefighters. Video from Tel Aviv showed...

View Article


Cockburn & The 41ers

Alexander Cockburn, the most incisive political journalist of our time, was born on June 6, 1941 (the year of the snake). I sent him this in ‘91: Greetings to our favorite lefty, Alexander Cockburn, 50…

View Article

Letters 6/14/2025

Unfortunately, the recent federal budget cuts that have been impacting the Mendo Food Network and Fort Bragg Food Bank continue to affect our ability to maintain our programs.…

View Article


Mendocino County Today: 6/14/2025

BREEZY northwesterly winds forecast this afternoon, with the strongest winds on coastal headlands and in Lake County. Slightly above normal temperatures with Minor HeatRisk forecast through mid next...

View Article

Bill Veeck

Slightly condensed from an article in the March 1949 American Legion Magazine by Paul Gardner (my dad, whose folder of yellowed clippings I’ve been looking through.) In mid-summer of 1946 Bill Veeck...

View Article

Liberation, Cooptation & The Sixties

Reflections on Thorne Dreyer’s Notes from the Underground (New Journalism Project, $27). Have you noticed? Sixties folk—organizers, activists, pacifists, feminists and liberationists of all...

View Article

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 6/15/2025

Mostly Sunny | Evergreen Cemetery | Joe Waggoner | Saturday Protests | Comptche BBQ | AV Events | Free Show | Shields Report | Pet Justice | Yesterday's Catch | Bone Spurs | Hate Free | Whitethorn...

View Article