Mendocino County Today: Saturday, July 25, 2015
CRAZY IDEA KILLED — TOO NUTS EVEN FOR FORT BRAGG MAYOR TURNER A bill banning the naming of schools and roads after notable Confederates introduced to the California Legislature has been modified to...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, July 26, 2015
FORT BRAGG got the front page of Thursday's San Francisco Chronicle, complete with a nonsensical color photo showing a couple of laughing young guys, an oblivious old guy and a rear view of a man...
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 ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, July 27, 2015
JOURNALISM SCHOOLS seem to traumatize their dimmer students, most of whom go on to become editors where they force their writers, especially the ones who show signs of independent life, into great...
View ArticleRainwater Catchment Class
August 1 - Learn how to access thousands of gallons of rainwater for garden and household. Rainwater harvest may have already caught your interest during this historic drought. Sign up and learn how,...
View ArticleThe Kurds Are Crowdfunding Their Revolution
International solidarity with a click of a mouse!
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, July 28, 2015
MANY LOCALS felt the earth shudder late Monday morning. According to the USGS, a quake measuring 3.5 was centered a few miles south of Point Arena but felt as far east as Signal Ridge, Philo. Say,...
View ArticleHalliburton Subsidiary Sues Vets For Poisoning Them
KBR circles wagons as veterans sue for illnesses resulting from hazardous waste in Iraq and Afghanistan.
View ArticleTo The Thief Who Broke Into Stelly’s Supermarket
The officer has a message for you, punk.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, July 29, 2015
A STRONG HIGH PRESSURE AREA is hovering over the western US and will hold for at least the next week. Temperatures will be warming and Wednesday through Friday daytime temperatures will be 8 to 12...
View ArticleOff the Record (July 29, 2015)
BOWE BERGDAHL, the once-missing US soldier in Afghanistan released in a prisoner exchange with the Taliban and later accused of desertion, turned up in Mendocino County last week. He was visiting old...
View ArticleThe Right To Bear Arms
Danilo Zacapa-Diaz was living happily ever after in Anderson Valley after a felony bust 10 years ago. He had a wife and family of three kids and another on the way. He provided for his growing brood by...
View ArticleWine Industry Water Grab?
California's slow-mo adoption of groundwater regulations is prompting all sorts of legal maneuvers by the state's irrigation elite, who are striving for the fewest restrictions on their pumps possible....
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (July 29, 2015)
Are you up for some significant service to our community? Well your opportunity to make a difference has arrived. With High School Principal Michelle Hutchins taking on the extra duties of School...
View ArticleValley People (July 29, 2015)
MANY LOCALS felt the earth shudder late Monday morning. According to the USGS, a quake measuring 3.5 was centered a few miles south of Point Arena but felt as far east as Signal Ridge, Philo. Say,...
View ArticleLetters (July 29, 2015)
When I ran for city council against Scott Dietz and Doug Hammerstrom I never could figure out why they were running. Now it is four years later, I still have no idea. At the time of the election they...
View ArticleMendocino Talking: Penny Marchand
When you’re a mom with two great sons that are both successful, it’s strange to hear people refer to one of them as a rock star. I think both of my sons rock. So, if anyone had told me that my first...
View ArticleHiking The JMT
By the time you read this I should be somewhere on the John Muir Trail, most likely in Yosemite National Park. This will all be part of a two week backpacking trip/adventure with my long time outdoor...
View ArticleCover Stories
I recently got a letter from my editor at Counterpoint Press, the daring publishing company bringing out a paperback edition of my book Buddha In A Teacup in early 2016, saying he would soon be sending...
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