Letters (Mar 25, 2015)
While I am glad to see the state taking some action toward conserving water and planning for the future, I am appalled it took this long. I am also amazed the state hasn’t gone after the biggest users...
View ArticleHey Nineteen
Digging around for photos of my grandmother, I came across a black and white picture of me taken in 1969, a still shot from a student film made during my second and final year of college at UC Santa...
View ArticleCalifornia’s ‘Water Donor Counties’
The Humboldt and Trinity County boards of supervisors have issued a new trickle of outrage concerning their status as water vassals of Central Valley agribusiness. In letters this past January to...
View ArticlePlease Vaccinate
Dear Parents (and others), We write as concerned health professionals and community members. Our topic: Vaccination, or lack thereof, and risks to our health. The urge to protect one’s children is one...
View ArticleNo Knees Kelley
Recently I was asked, “When ya gonna write somethin' positive?” Answer: When I get sick and tired of watching reruns of the black and white episodes of The Andy Griffith Show and Shameless. Shameless...
View ArticleThe Stony Lonesome: Heart Of Glass (Beach)
CAUTION! DO NOT TURN YOUR BACK ON THE OCEAN! You see the signs up and down the Mendocino Coast, wherever land, people and sea interface; often, the signs are accompanied by grisly descriptions of...
View ArticleGraham Nash’s Sound & Vision
For a few years in the 1970s, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were America's Beatles — the most popular rock “supergroup” of them all, known widely as “CSNY.” And Graham Nash was the band's George...
View ArticleWalk The Plank, Mr. Juntz!
The City of Point Arena is currently trying, through their new City attorney and Council, to wrest ownership of the old Coast Guard Boat House from the current owner of 28 years, Blake Juntz, former...
View ArticleSt. Patrick’s Day
Spring has finally returned to the Ohio Valley. Iris and daffodil bulbs are sending forth chutes, and the wheat fields turning emerald green. Just like the rest of America, I always associated green...
View ArticleA Historical Neurosis
My parents moved to Connecticut when I was eight years old, and it was the suburbs. And suburbs were new then. Levittown had been built when... in the '40's, '47? ... and this was a brand-new suburban...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, Mar 26, 2015 (free today)
Old Coast Hotel Hearing; Standing Dead Trees; Food Waste Contract; Yesterday's Catch; Logging Conference; California Drought Legislation; Officer Krupke; Buland; California's Epic Drought; Huffman...
View ArticleHumCo’s $3.5 mil Psych Staff Contract
Facing the loss of psychiatric services staff in the county’s Mental Health Branch, the Board of Supervisors has approved a one-year contract with a firm that recruits and hires psychiatrists. The $3.5...
View ArticleCapitalism 101: Textile Workers in Cambodia [video]
Garment workers are paid starvation wages, live in cramped shared rooms, and suffer from malnutrition. But I love your new shirt!
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, Mar 27, 2015
Next Hearing; Redwoods Saved; No Dump; Ordinance Corrections; Big Propane Tank; Stop Water Dumping; Racket Radio; Not Altered; Yesterday's Catch; High-tech Weaponry; Illegitimate Wars; Toxic Trash;...
View ArticleInside Federal Supermax Prison
A landmark lawsuit reveals the harsh and secretive world within.
View ArticleAmericana Night
At the Cloverdale Arts Alliance on April 16 by Cloverdale Arts Alliance/THE Jazz Club On Thursday, April 16, the Cloverdale Arts Alliance is pleased to present Americana Night with David Luning. David...
View ArticleBig Time CA at HSU
HSU Hosts California Big Time April 4 Humboldt State University will host its eighth annual California Big Time & Social Gathering on Saturday, April 4, 10:30 to 7pm in the West Gym. This public...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, Mar 28, 2015
Ripeness is All; Frost-Fan Hearing; Hare Creek Vote; Editor Churn; Killed-Tree Ban; Water Concerns; Bob Reeds; Yesterday's Catch; They Rule; Bad Writing; Water Needs; Police Work; Drug Therapy;...
View ArticleToronto Mystery Tunnel: An Antidote To Noise?
The tunnel that Elton built was his portal into a world of quiet.
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