Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Water Pumping; No-recall Letter; Judi Bari Day; Lethal Surnames; Unwinnable Wars; Boonville Farmers' Market; Villa Superfan; Bowl of Cherries; Holiday Entertainments; Get Iraq; Yesterday's Catch; Spam...
View Article“You Don’t Want To Know What We Do After Dark”
A look at Houston's violent, out-of-control gangs.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Mendo Bail; Woodhouse Visit; Dumpster Body; Liberty Union; Abalone Checkpoint; Stoner Calls; Baseball BBQ; AVHC Meeting; Line Clutter; Cultural Diffusion; Yesterday's Catch; Pesticide Alternatives;...
View ArticleValley People (May 27, 2015)
AN ANXIOUS BBC PROGRAMMER called early Monday morning looking for Steve Sparks who has become something of an international sports celebrity as he visits his ancestral home in Birmingham, England.
View ArticleOff the Record (May 27, 2015)
SOPORIFIC HEADLINE from Monday's Press Democrat: "Leon Panetta speaks at Rep. Mike Thompson celebration." Leon Panetta. Mike Thompson. The appearance of Panetta's name alone is like someone's just...
View ArticleTerror In the Vineyard
The Piffero Vineyard was the scene of a benign birthday party that ended unbenignly with the police shooting of Timothy Abshire. On the afternoon of Last November 15th last year, Abshire walked out of...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (May 27, 2015)
You may recall that, about six months ago, a Fox News “terrorist expert” claimed that Britain’s second biggest city, Birmingham, was “a totally Muslim city and a no-go area for non-Muslims.” American...
View ArticleTurning Water Into Wine
The unregulated expansion of California’s wine industry into the state’s coastal regions is depleting groundwater supplies and devastating rivers and fisheries. Along the border of Sonoma and Napa...
View ArticleLetters (May 27, 2015)
If you all would ever get beyond your knee-jerk reactions w/re to Fort Bragg's politics, you might discover the elements behind the recall of the Mayor are much more sinister than you currently...
View ArticlePrivate Prisons: A Plague Upon The Land
Five corporations making billions off of institutionalized misery, horror and injustice.
View ArticleWhat Do Mendo Businesses Want?
In April, the Employers Council of Mendocino County published their Fourth Annual Business Conditions Survey inviting "the business community" — 142 businesses to be precise — "to answer ten...
View ArticleMendocino Talking: Will Siegel
Will has been making and teaching music around Mendocino and Lake counties for many years. He and his various band ensembles can play blues and rock one night out in Upper Lake; then bluegrass and...
View ArticleWater & Sewer for Boonville?
Last Wednesday evening I attended the Community Services District's (CSD) water and sewage meeting held at the Fairgrounds dining room in Boonville. It was a very informative meeting, well-run,...
View ArticleBefore Grapes Went Upscale
This is an addendum to the recently published history of Allied Grape Growers, 1951-2011 celebrating the 60-year history of the grape growing cooperative. My family grew grapes in Hopland, Mendocino...
View ArticleBoonville’s Own Water & Sewer?
The Community Services District board hosted a community discussion of the prospects for a local water and sewer system last Wednesday night at the Fairgrounds dining hall in downtown Boonville. CSD...
View ArticleLost to Time
We just watched the movie Wild based on a memoir by a woman, played in the movie by Reese Witherspoon, who hiked the Pacific Crest Trail through California and Oregon to overcome her anger and sorrow...
View ArticleOld-Time Timber Fallers
Timber fallers can be heard less than a mile north and slightly west of here. I walked through their handiwork last evening, a far neater job than I've witnessed on the lands of the predominant...
View ArticleWill Desalination Wet Our Whistles?
Technological advances have made removing salt from seawater and waste water less energy-intensive.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, May 28, 2015
Ernesto Donations; George Chambers; Supes' Pay; Balo Pumping; Temp Tags; Ukiah Fight Club; Catch of the Day; It's a Dream; Dinnerstein; Oil Spills; Bamboo Art; Solar House Party; Mass Interruptus; PD...
View Article‘Take Me Back To The Quarries!’
At present, we find ourselves in Sicily, but not the Sicily so popularized by the movie, The Godfather. One is cautioned, to be sure, never to speak of “those who have no name.” Rather, we are here to...
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