Cyber Romance
And so ends my experience with the online personals: I must've contacted at least 150 women from all over the West Coast in their 40's and I don't know if its my location, age, looks, attitude,...
View ArticleGoody’s Song
As recently reported, Marcia and I are getting more airplay for our music on KVRF, a radio station in Palmer, Alaska, than we’ve had anywhere else in these United States, and our song getting the most...
View ArticleThe Marriage Of Alex Cabarga
When I arrive at Soledad State Prison the first person I meet is the mother of the groom. She comes forward in the bright sunlight beside the squat building, the Visitors Receiving Center. “Hi, I'm...
View ArticleGreenfield’s Pomo Relics
Systemic and widespread murder, land expropriation, forced sterilization, kidnapping and forced indoctrination of children via a residential school system that persisted for nearly a century,...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Mar 18, 2015)
Several regulars at the 3-Dot and myself wish to pass on our congratulations to owner Tom Towey on the Fourth Anniversary of his Buckhorn restaurant and pub in the heart of Boonville. Recalling those...
View ArticleValley People (Mar 18, 2015)
BILL MCEWEN has died. A long-time resident of Philo, Bill, 63, was well-known in the Anderson Valley for his quiet commitment to family and friends. Most recently, Bill, a skilled farmer himself,...
View ArticleThe Bombing of Dresden, 70 Years Later
A BBC Breakfast interview with 95-year-old Dresden firebombing survivor Victor Gregg aired last month in the UK on the 70th anniversary of the attacks. This ten-minute video should be required viewing...
View ArticleTanoaks, Fire Dangers & MRC
The use of an herbicide (imazapyr) to kill tanoaks on timberlands was the immediate issue that brought out 120 Mendocino citizens to the March 5th meeting at the Comptche Community Center. Who wants to...
View ArticleLa Forge & Le Wolfe
We were about to hear how it came to pass that Ashley LaForge had, that raw February morning, taken the stand to call Officer Peter Hoyle a liar, and that same afternoon got herself busted with nine...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, Mar 18
Coast Hotel Case; Methy Chainsaw; Hit & Gun; Catch o'the Day; Bombing Carolina; Religious Intolerance; Silicon Veneer; Defensible Space; Tsunami Warning; Museum Roadshow; Natural Living; Jefferson...
View ArticleStop the Hare Creek Mall
Developers are proposing to remove the hill behind the former College of the Redwoods, and replace it with stores and a parking lot. Instead of ocean views and open space, visitors at the junction of...
View ArticleLetters (Mar 18, 2015)
It's important to note that the Mendocino County Deputy Sheriff's Association, a group one would assume would be supportive of a new courthouse, in fact opposes the project.
View ArticleThe Stony Lonesome: Kids Today
I'm sitting here looking at the February 11 issue of this journal and wondering what I should make of the fact of my work being honored with placement on the front page, above the fold, but with my...
View ArticleWar Heroes
When what feels like forty-six light-years ago I got back from Vietnam, I never would have believed that, this deep into the 21st Century, we’d still be worshiping at the clay feet of War Heroes. It’s...
View ArticleRidding Baseball of its Deadly Habit
Finally, serious steps are being taken to curtail baseball's deadly chewing tobacco habit — proposed legislation that would ban its use throughout California beginning next year. The great need for a...
View ArticleSF Church Installs Sprinklers To Combat Homeless, Amen!
This Jesus Loves You moment is brought to you by St. Mary's Cathedral and the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, Mar 19, 2015
Russian River Documentary; Chief Lizarraga; Chief Jones; Who Dat?; Durst Connection; Stop the Mall; Newspaper Conglomerate; Fedco Seeds; Stolen Vehicles; Abalone Poachers; Catch o'the Day; Middle...
View ArticleMapping the Albion
The Albion River and its close environs bears little resemblance to its appearance when I was a boy. Then you could walk or drive unimpeded up Allan's Gulch to the southeast of this house. Just a few...
View ArticleHauling Lumber
According to legend, my mother's dad whistled like a pro. Supposedly as he tinkered around the farm, he taught Jazz tunes to the mockingbird that followed him from job to job, entertaining from a lofty...
View ArticleRoad Trip Time Again
I smoke marijuana (medical), drink Russian vodka (political, Go Vlad!) and take two pills from Big Pharma every morning to address my lifelong hypertension. When I was enlisting in the National Guard...
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