Cannabis Under The Microscope
Here is an amazing look at the marijuana plant at the microscopic level. http://timewheel.net/Image-Here-s-How-Marijuana-Looks-Under-A-Microscope
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, Mar 29, 2015
Sleep v Grape; Price of Justice; Tow & Blow; Milky Lake; 65% Bypass; 118 Years; Need Snow; Girl Beater; Yesterday's Catch; Good Coffee; Juanita’s Apartment; Frat Party; Johnson; No Contest; I Get...
View ArticleWhy America Will Be Hard To Conquer: the Video
Here's rare footage of a Tea Party mom visiting Sea Ranch for the weekend.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, Mar 30, 2015
FB Meeting; Open Government; Legal Maneuvers; Managing Lake Mendocino; SoCal Adventure; Managing Fire Risk; Yesterday's Catch; Cesar Chavez Day; Normal Life; Democratic Oligarchy; Boycotting Indiana;...
View Article“You Really Got Me”– Steve Talbot on the Kinks
If you like the Kinks, or ever crashed a concert, or remember New York in the '70s...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, Mar 31, 2015 (free today)
Sheriff Stories; Spring; Bumpersticker; Navarro River; History Roundtable; Grange Month; Mendo Book; Asset Seizures; Yesterday's Catch; Wine Giveaway; The Future; Meth Dispensary; Mendo Airspace;...
View ArticleToddler vs. Terrorist: Who’s The Biggest Threat?
Seventeen Americans were killed worldwide as a result of terrorism in 2011.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, Apr 1, 2015
Frost Advisory; Hillary Caucus; Adolescent Education; Head Banger; Denouncing Gramma; BOS Meetings; Public Banks; Forest Death; Asphalt Plant; Legal Victory; Catch of the Day; MendoVito Opposition;...
View ArticleOff the Record (Apr 1, 2015)
WE'RE STILL LIGHT ON THE PARTICULARS, but Eel River Fuels wants Fort Bragg to permit a 30,000 gallon propane tank in the middle of town. A reader puts it this way: “The company makes it sound as though...
View ArticleHang ‘Em High Henderson
Defense attorney Keith Faulder was among the startled to find Judge Henderson hearing a criminal case. Henderson seems to regard Mendocino County's thriving defendant class as automatically guilty of...
View ArticleLet’s Honor a True American Hero
I hope we can all pause and reflect on the extraordinary life of a true American hero on Tuesday (March 31). It's Cesar Chavez Day, proclaimed by President Obama and observed throughout the country on...
View ArticleThe Fire Next Time
Ted R. Williams has written an inspired letter to the Board of Supervisors concerning the danger posed by dead tanoaks on Mendocino Redwood Company's timberlands in the county. As a result, it is...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Apr 1, 2015)
Rumors have it that as many as three, four, or perhaps even all five seats on the School Board may be up for election later this year. I cannot confirm this, and some of the numbers certainly sound a...
View ArticleValley People (Apr 1, 2015)
THE LEAD STORY in Saturday morning's Press Democrat story by Glenda Anderson was about Man vs. Machine, specifically Mark Scaramella vs. the Frost Fan Nuisance.
View ArticleThe Way It Used To Be: 1957
Toronto -- Old Woodbine Race Track. There's never been enough emphasis on horse racing. If it were only so simple, so quick to the quick, but only in stories. Just getting to the track was sometimes...
View ArticleThe Thematics of Spring Break
Ithaca, New York. — Patches of snow cling to the muddy earth in the city’s picturesque nineteenth-century cemetery just. In the nearby gorge the creek builds momentum ever hour as the thaw gathers...
View ArticleOf Sardines & Sea Lions, Fishermen & NGOs
In Southern and Central California, nearly 2,000 California sea lion pups have struggled ashore this winter, starving and lost because the ocean has been unable to provide enough calories for their...
View ArticleMad or Mad!
MTC's production of Gaslight is superb, from well-turned out performances, to the Victorian period Set, costumes, makeup, hair, the music, and of course, gas lights that brighten and dim. First nights...
View ArticleCompletion
Several years ago I wrote a piece for the AVA entitled When Is It Done? in which I recounted my meeting with the poet William Everson in Santa Cruz circa 1971. I was hitchhiking on the coast highway,...
View ArticleThe Stony Lonesome: Interviewing Flynn
I recently sat down with the Stony Lonesome for a hard-hitting, take no prisoners, straight from the hip interview. He rarely allows journalists entree into his circle, so I felt quite privileged — as...
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