Stall and Delay Tactics
The December meeting of the Mendocino County Mental Health Board provided some good news, some old news, and evidence of delaying tactics within the county's bureaucracy. Perhaps the best news was the...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Jan 14, 2014)
Several 3-Dot regulars remain disappointed, and a little hungry, because three Valley restaurants remain “closed for the holidays.” Aquarelle, Stone and Embers, and Libby’s. However, The Buckhorn is...
View ArticleIrresistible Force Meets Immovable Object
A Mendocino County Superior Court judge, once seated, becomes almost impossible to dislodge. The inertia of incumbency ossifies, as it were, into an immovable object. Or so it was thought until last...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wed, Jan 14, 2015
Right to Sleep; Edu Parasites; $90K Embezzled; Profit Exploitation; Tao Jones; Medical Marijuana Legal?; Crime Free; Bidin' My Time; Money Scenes; Liberty's Mug; Apocalypse Then
View ArticleValley People (Jan 14, 2014)
SHIRLEY HULBERT of Boonville's Stow-It Storage, apologizes to her many customers who have tried to call her. Shirley's phone line, through no fault of hers, has been down since December 11th. Shirley...
View ArticleMendocino Talking: Steve Baird
Steve has been many things to many people over the years living and working in and around Ukiah. As a musician, he plays Upright and Electric Bass, Trombone, Trumpet, and other brass, and has played...
View ArticleThe New Ukiah Courthouse (annotated)
(Ed note: The following sales pitch for a new County Courthouse by Judge David Nelson is annotated by Bruce Anderson.) Plans for a new Ukiah courthouse at the old railroad depot site continue to move...
View ArticleResurrection of Community News?
After two years of a radically downsized news format, it appears that the management of KZYX has heard the clarion community call for a news upgrade approaching what was once a gem of the station's...
View ArticleThe Stony Lonesome: Mendo Rocks!
Here at the Stony Lonesome offices, high atop a glittering skyscraper rising majestically heavenward from the undulating dunes of Abu Dhabi, we are nothing if not brutally, transparently honest. Just...
View ArticleGoodbye Milwaukee
My Greyhound Bus ride from Milwaukee to Madison cost one dollar and ninety cents. The date, according to my old journal, was March 24, 1969. Madison was the first leg of my journey to California. I had...
View ArticleLetters (Jan 14, 2014)
Mental Health Privatization has failed us. The for-profit Ortner rakes in millions of State and Federal Mental Health Patient money, and provides very few of the State-Mandated services. Four egregious...
View ArticleInto the Woods
The first live stage performance of Into the Woods that I ever saw was a production by the Davis Musical Theatre Company during the summer of 1990. My two sons (then ages 7 and 10) and I had been...
View ArticleCuba: Island Of Contrasts
The tropical warmth enveloped us as we exited the aircraft. I resisted the temptation to emulate the papist act of kneeling down and kissing the tarmac. I had already established my eccentricity with...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, Jan 15, 2015
Wet, then Cold; Carbon Emissions Tax; AV Surprises Mendo; New Niners Coach; AVHC Meetings; Mailing KZYXers; Catch of the Day; Weed Plantations; My Two Jobs; Alcohol-falls; Word-turn Accident; Catholic...
View ArticleCharlie Hedbo Fired Cartoonist Ridiculing Judaism
nhttp://anonhq.com/charlie-hebdo-fired-anti-semitic-cartoonist-ridiculing-judaism-2009/ In 2009 a French cartoonist was fired after drawing caricature showing Sarkozy's son converting to Judaism for...
View ArticleJim Clark Could Give Pot Smugglers A Bad Name
A new movie recreates the March 7, 1965 civil rights march in Selma, Alabama that was violently suppressed by law enforcement and shamed Congress into passing a voters' rights bill. Howard Zinn had...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, Jan 16, 2015
Crumb Solidarity; Light Rain; Coast Hotel; Losak's Letter; Regressive Taxation; Weed Good; Catch of the Day; Weed Bad; Memo of the Week; Media Auction; Human Suicide; Stupid GOP; kzyx.us; Ai Weiwei;...
View ArticleCalling Public Artists
"Call for Artists" for the 2015-2016 Sculpture Trail, a year-round outdoor exhibit of sculptures in the Northern Sonoma County communities of Cloverdale and Geyserville is now available. The sponsors...
View ArticleIntroducing: ME!
Monthly Networking Meeting Ukiah Valley Conference Center, 200 S. School St, Ukiah Date: January 20, 2015 12:00 PM PST Join us Tuesday, January 20 for our monthly networking meeting: 12:00 p.m. at...
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