The Stony Lonesome: ‘It Could Be Verse’
First off, Constant Reader, I would like to assure you that I have no idea what a "below standard boatswain door for grande" is, and I don't expect you to. I refer to a transcriptional error in my...
View ArticleMendocino Talking: Sandy Turner
Sandy is a school teacher and environmentalist who has been involved in several cooperative businesses and community non-profits over the years.
View ArticleLetter from Paris (to Ishmael Reed)
All is well here at our house. Religious fanatics were on other side of town. But religious fanaticism is a threat all the way around the globe. Not just the Islamic stripe either. And freedom of press...
View ArticleHigh Anxiety
The Gualala Community Center hosts Pay-N-Take, a second-hand store open on the first Saturday morning of every month, for almost everything recyclable, from fine china to table saws. I volunteered...
View ArticleThe Gusts of Globalization
Last month the novelist, screenwriter, and CounterPunch contributor Clancy Sigal, whose most recent book is the vital Hemingway Lives!, sent me the following vignette, a history lesson in the nearly...
View ArticleThe Windmill
In the 1940s I remember my grandfather digging a well at our pear ranch. It was not very deep and he lined with wooden boards. He purchased the parts to a windmill and when it was assembled he tilted...
View ArticleWeed Seeds
Wild birds perch on bare lambsquarter limbs, picking off the tiny black seeds. Lambsquarters, the weed, is closely related to quinoa, the grain, one of the latest health crazes. Quinoa is mostly grown...
View ArticleUp to 18 Months for Mendo-Kansas Case Pot Defendants
All but one of the seven Mendocino County marijuana suppliers caught up in a Kansas-based federal drug distribution case have been sentenced. Details about what information and assistance each...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, Feb 26, 2015
Panthers Win; Chance of Snow; Labor Cheats; Couder Revolution; Pot Changes; Road Raging; Turkish Misrule; Firebombing Tulsa; Bird on the Wire; Trains Crashing; Catch o'the Day; LakeCo Poverty; Girl...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, Feb 27, 2015
Try Keegan; Huff PO; Healdsburg Meat; Fox Brigade; Nuclear Whistleblower; Salmon Season; LakeCo Homeless; The Problem; Deadly Chaw; Clinton Foundation; Rembrandt; FB Appeals; Better Site; Telescope...
View ArticleHow Not To Get Away With Murder
http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2014/december/how-not-to-get-away-with-murder?single=1
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, Feb 28, 2015 (free today)
Frost Advisory; Carmel's Friend; Video Arraignments; Ortner Willits? EMT Rewards; Seen Jeff?; Catch o'the Day; Waltzing; Finding Mercuryville; DUI Checkpoint; Meth Dealer; Foodshed News; Police...
View ArticleHow Junk Science Sent A Man To Prison For Life
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/24/junkscienceclaudegarrett/
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, Mar 1, 2015
A VISITING WRITER asked me if I thought the Santa Rosa Press Democrat was “in bed with the wine industry.” In fact, the paper's editors are on 24-hour speed dial to perform whatever sex acts the...
View ArticleElvis and Nixon Talk Commies, Hippies and Drugs
Misspent Youths – 1970 | Washington, DC Presidential Memo recorded by Bud Krough The president mentioned that he thought Presley could reach young people, and that it was important for Presley to...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, Mar 2, 2015
JUST IN FROM MCN's listserve: “You are invited to a meeting at the Fort Bragg Public Library on Saturday, March 14, 5-6pm to discuss decisions concerning the Hare Creek shopping mall, the Old Coast...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, Mar 3, 2015
FROST FANS. The machines, not you people who like the crispy Spring visuals. Tom Melcher has created an absolutely brilliant visual for all of us agitating for frost fan abatement. Tom has affixed a...
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