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 ArticleRenouncing 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 ArticleOff 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 ArticleMendocino 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 ArticleCoining 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 ArticlePolitics, 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 ArticleMendocino 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 ArticleA 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 ArticleSister 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 ArticleMendocino 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 ArticleBreaking: 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 ArticleValley 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 ArticleSupervisor 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 ArticleMendocino 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 ArticleNYT: 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 ArticleCockburn & 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 ArticleLetters 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 ArticleMendocino 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 ArticleBill 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 ArticleLiberation, 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 ArticleMendocino 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...
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