The Great Flu of 1918, Mendocino County
For fascinating listening there is “The Great Influenza” by John Barry. It’s available from the County Library and provides hours of informative material on a disease that killed millions worldwide in...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, May 14, 2015
SCATTERED SHOWERS are predicted for Thursday around Mendocino County, with showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 11am. Cloudy, with a high near 62. Light and variable winds in the morning....
View ArticleHamlet on Tasers
Supervisor Hamburg on taser use by by patrol deputies. A Blue Meanie guy from way back, the 5th District supervisor knows the Blue Meanie bloc will be ga-ga with delight that he brought it up. Hamburg...
View ArticleBoxing Anthems: Bred to Kill
Though the singing of the American national anthem at sporting events retains vestigial trappings of patriotism, the real point of the exercise is entertainment, the more violent the better. If the...
View ArticleGratitude
When we feel gratitude, we give ourselves the gift of concentrating on what's important, and when we share our gratitude, it helps others feel gratitude, and also share it. I am a believer in the...
View ArticleCocoa
Her name was Cocoa. She spelled it like the beverage, not Jane Goodall’s gorilla. She looked Ethiopian with her cafe con leche complexion, high cheekbones, and yellowish brown eyes—most of the women at...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, May 15, 2015 (free today)
Encroaching Wineries; Doctors Without Sleep; Pickup Mystery; Comptche Bust; Female DNA; Navarro Sandbar; Yesterday's Catch; Ipanema Girl; Vaccine Bill; Aigner Radio; Bibi's Government; Obama TPP; Eel...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, May 16, 2015
SWEENEY’S BOGUS TRANSFER SWAP Dear Editor, The recent article on the County proposal for a Pygmy Forest Preserve perpetuates some misinformation that the Sierra Club is trying to bring to the...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, May 17, 2015
THE WORM TURNS — A NUMBER OF COUNTY EMPLOYEES have finally concluded the obvious — they are badly represented by the SEIU (Service Employees International Union). According to a handout at a meeting of...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, May 18, 2015
THE TURNOUT for Saturday's pinot protest was small but made the point that not all of us are happy with the local wine industry. Some of the wine businesses are very bad neighbors, especially those who...
View ArticleHillary the Shillary: White House For Rent
Hillary and Bill Clinton have received $25 million on the lecture circuit over the last 16 months.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, May 19, 2015
ANDERSON VALLEY'S MASSIVE ANTI-FROST FAN demonstration at the annual Pinot Fest as reported by David Severn: “I made a couple signs and showed up at 10:30 for the 11:00 event and spent about an hour...
View ArticleRequiem For A Bandido: When An Outlaw Biker Dies
Over four hundred bikers thunder into San Antonio to honor a fallen comrade.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, May 20, 2015
APOLOGY TO DAVE SEVERN from the company that employed the fat guy who belly-bumped Dave almost into the street in front of Golden Eye Winery where the insensate had gathered Saturday to eat and drink...
View ArticleShelter Cove Culture Clash
On a steep coastal property in Shelter Cove lies a trail that descends several hundred feet from a tall bluff to the black sand beach below. The top of the bluff, which is accessible by car, offers a...
View Article“Sanford Fare Well” Honors Marathoner and Jazz Poet
Sanford Dorbin, who died May 27, 2014, will be honored in the jazz-poetry program “Sanford Fare Well” next Wednesday, May 27, 2015. It commemorates his life as Mendocino County resident, activist,...
View ArticleDoes Fracking Cause Earthquakes? Duh!
The U.S. Geological Survey confirms that fracking drastically increases number of earthquakes.
View ArticleDoorstep Dog Poop and a Hernia the Size of a Volleyball
On September 1st of this year, Ukiah Police Officer Isabel Madrigal was dispatched to the laundromat in the 500 block of North State Street where she'd been summoned by Mr. Vincent Gianvito. Gianvito...
View ArticleWorth
I have my piano tuned once a year. I used to have the beauty tuned twice a year, but that was when a good tuning cost sixty dollars and I was making much more money than I make now.
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