Bird’s Eye View (July 15, 2015)
As I sit here contemplating the state of the film industry, not only do I think that HBO provides better entertainment than going to a cinema (due mainly to all the top screenwriters now working for...
View ArticleKZYX’s Divine Comedy Runs On
The KZYX Board of Directors held a marathon five-hour meeting at the Community Center in Willits on June 29th. Mercifully, the weather was almost cool — the digital screen reading 88 degrees at 4 p.m....
View ArticleNot-So-Simple, July 24-26
The Not-So-Simple Living Fair is a weekend of rural living skills education, homesteading workshops, back to the land demonstrations, music, and dance, held July 24-26, at the Mendocino County...
View ArticleFree Physicals For Kids
Summer is in full swing and for many parents, and kids for that matter, going back to school is probably the last thing on their minds. But to fully participate in school activities, a sports physical...
View ArticleMental Health: How To Inspire Zero Confidence
WE’RE STILL TRYING TO DECIPHER what’s happening with the reporting of Mendocino County’s privatized Mental Health system. We recently asked the Health & Human Services Department staff for copies...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, July 16, 2015
Red Truck; Another Hit; Taking Evidence; Homeless Evictions; Yesterday's Catch; Warrant Wednesday; Miller Decision; Daddy's Working; New Tribe; Democratic Hypocrisy; Sweeney's Station; Crunch Time;...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Failed Water System
In a decision bursting with symbolism, the California State Water Resources Control Board recently announced its intention to draw down the main water supply reservoir for a half-million people who...
View ArticleRed or Blue, It’s All About Green
Teenager invents smartphone app that tracks the corrosive influence of money on Congress.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, July 17, 2015
============================= CYNICISM, THE NEXT STEP THE BLACK CAUCUS of the state legislature wants Fort Bragg to re-name itself. The caucus today (Thursday) sent a letter to the city signed by eight...
View ArticleParty On, Aussie Rebels!
Young man's parents go on vacation. Young man throws party. Police send helicopters.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sat. July 18, 2015
WE’RE AMAZED that no one in Official Mendocino County seems upset in the least about Mental Health Director Tom Pinizzotto — a former Ortner executive — negotiating billing rates and Mental Health...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, July 19, 2015
WE FOUND THIS BRIEF EXCHANGE in the minutes of the May 2015 meeting of the County’s Mental Health Advisory Board (MHAB). It's useful as an example of how ineffective the Mental Health Advisory Board...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, July 20, 2015
DOUBLE HOMICIDE IN LAYTONVILLE A frenzied midnight knife attack two miles northwest of Laytonville has left a 17-year-old boy and a 52-year-old man dead. Two other persons at the Meadow Lane home of a...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, July 21, 2015
AN UPDATED CHP PRESS RELEASE issued Monday afternoon reported that the hit&run driver who ran over and killed coast cyclist Jacob Aaron Howard a week ago Sunday about two miles south of Fort Bragg...
View ArticleArt Mix in Mendocino
From sculpture to assemblage, pottery to photography, furniture to painting, Art Mix in Mendocino is the most eclectic mix of eleven Mendocino artists to assemble in one show each year. This unique...
View ArticleInsider Lifts Lid On Greek Banking Disaster
A senior Greek advisor gives a rare and disturbing insight into the madness.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wed., July 22, 2015
ISABEL GUTIERREZ-VILLARREAL, 41, of Fort Bragg was in custody Tuesday, after being arrested for the hit-and-run crash that killed a Fort Bragg bicycle rider. Rider Jacob Aaron Howard, 36, had been on a...
View ArticleOff the Record (July 22, 2015)
A FRENZIED midnight knife attack Sunday two miles northwest of Laytonville has left a 17-year-old boy and a 52-year-old man dead. Two other persons at the Meadow Lane home of a prominent Laytonville...
View ArticleThe Fort Bragg Initiative
On Monday evening, July 13th, the Fort Bragg City Council met in front of a subdued audience of 25-30 citizens. Anna Shaw, head of the Mendocino Coast Hospitality Center (MCHC) was there, so were a few...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (July 22, 2015)
It was a veritable smorgasbord of activity and entertainment in the Valley over the past weekend. There was live music all over the place with The Ukeholics at Lauren’s Restaurant, The Subdudes at the...
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