Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Jan 17, 2015 (free today)
Legalizing It; Festival Fairgrounds; 49er Saga; Good Writing; Catch of the Day; Bob Stone; Water Discussion; Ambulance Appreciation; Asset Seizure; Class War; Veterans Healthcare; Entitlements; Pot...
View ArticleA Journalist Lives Under Armed Guard
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/14/-sp-roberto-saviano-my-life-under-armed-guard-gomorrah For eight years journalist Robert Saviano has faced constant threat of death for writing about the...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, Jan 18, 2015
Audio Nuzzle; Mouth Closed; Doak Mistrial; Court Bully; Reagan's Kids; Twits Censure; After Rain; Catch of the Day; Affinito Asylum; Buy Local; DiFi Wealth; Big Hittters; Racy Lawyer; Blood Debt; Poor...
View ArticleStone Zone Outdoor Studio Tour & Open House
The 7th Annual Gathering & Build of International Stone Foundation members is January 24, 2015 outside of Gualala. The public is invited to visit the stone quarry and stone structures created...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, Jan 19, 2015
JUSTINE FREDERIKSEN'S comprehensive story on Ukiah's most intransigent homeless couple, Kalisha and Scotty, perfectly explained the Mendo dilemma vis a vis the unhoused. We've also covered the...
View ArticleMiddle Class Continues To Disappear Under Obama
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/01/27-facts-that-show-how-middle-class-has.html What has Wall Street puppet Barack Obama done for the working class and the poor?
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, Jan 20, 2015
HEY! I've got a Selma story for you. No, I wasn't there but the FBI said I was. According to my file, obtained via a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request, I was on the famous march. In fact, I was in...
View ArticleOur Friendly Allies and Masters, The Royal Saudis
http://rt.com/op-edge/223979-saudi-arabia-execution-violence/ Decapitation-happy Saudis behead one person every four days.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, Jan 21, 2015
FORT BRAGG’S LATEST SHOPPING CENTER PROPOSAL http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/news/ci_27355513/fort-bragg-planning-commission-consider-impacts-potential-new * * * Hare Creek Center - 1250 Del Mar...
View ArticleAlan Watts Befriends Me (1969)
My first few weeks living at Waldo Point made me realize that I wasn’t going anywhere else anytime soon. I liked hanging out on the Sausalito waterfront, meeting Becker’s friends and neighbors, mostly...
View ArticleValley People (Jan 21, 2015)
MIKE KALANTARIAN sends along this ominous photo of the Navarro, already closed at the mouth. Last year, it rained hard in December and was mostly dry the rest of the formerly wet season. We may be...
View ArticleOff the Record (Jan 21, 2015)
THE FORT BRAGG CITY COUNCIL, Lindy Peters dissenting, has voted 3-1 to allow the sale of the old Coast Hotel to the burgeoning Hospitality House and freshly privatized County Mental Health complex who,...
View ArticleSilencing the Frost Fans
Anderson Valley resident Mark Scaramella has filed a Petition for Writ of Mandate and Complaint for Declaratory or Injunctive Relief asking a Superior Court Judge to order Mendocino County to enforce...
View ArticleUnlucky In Love
“It had been five years,” Mr. Long told the detectives, “five long years and more, I’d gone without it, without, totally without, I mean, ur, uh, ah — you know — sex, sex of any kind; and then [on...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Jan 21, 2015)
The folks who coach sports at our local schools do a fine job with little financial reward — not that they want any more, I’m sure. The stipend they receive may possibly cover the gas they use driving...
View ArticleFort Bragg’s Big Freakin’ Problem
Back in late March of 2014 the Fort Bragg City Council held a hearing to consider a resolution authorizing an application for a $2 million community development block grant (CDBG) that would have gone...
View ArticleLetters (Jan 21, 2015)
About 18 months ago, I was present in Ten Mile Courtroom when Judge Brennan presided in a sentencing hearing. The defendant was an older man who suffered from a mental disturbance and was on government...
View ArticleThe Stony Lonesome: All The Best Gods
I wish that I had me some danged Internet up in here so I could ask it who thought up this business about the world being an oyster and what the hell he meant by it. "The world was his oyster." His...
View ArticleMendocino Talking: Mike Zarkowski
Mike owns Hobo Guitars in Ukiah. He has been a working musician all his life while also building and repairing guitars and other musical instruments.
View ArticleScoring Pynchon
The baroque density of Thomas Pynchon’s novels for half-a-century has dissuaded filmmakers from trying to turn any of them into movies. Paul Thomas Anderson’s valiant—or perhaps just plain...
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