Solitary Confinement: Punished for Life
Pelican Bay inmates die cruel and unusual social deaths.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, Aug 5, 2015
Wrestling Rocky; Victims IDed; Structure Abatement; PO Hotline; Forestry Discussion; HHSA Coverup; Kelisha OMG; Yesterday's Catch; McCowen's Truck; Interstellar Travel; Neo-feudalism; Burner; Friday...
View ArticleValley People (Aug 5, 2015)
CON CREEK disappeared this week. Ordinarily, the little stream that flows out of the Peachland hills, past the north side of the Boonville Elementary School and on into Anderson Creek sustains at least...
View ArticleReggae On The River 2015
The Mateel Community Center’s 31st Annual Reggae on the River is happening right now at French’s Camp in Southern Humboldt. It started last Thursday and runs through today. Meanwhile, there are active...
View ArticleJenny’s Giant Burger
As most locals will know there is a wonderfully unique little burger joint in Fort Bragg at the North end of Fort Bragg called Jenny’s Giant Burger. But many probably do not know the history of this...
View ArticleWater & Power In The Valley Of The Moon
In Roman Polansky’s Chinatown — arguably the coolest movie ever made about the murky political world of H2O — private eye Jake Gittes never nails the man who murders Hollis Mulwray, the chief engineer...
View ArticleSea Tales
The whaler, Dauphin, cradle-rocked under full sail off the Chilean coast that February morn. Then in the length it takes a breath to spark a babe or silence a codger, the vessel settled. “She's gone...
View ArticleOff the Record (Aug 5, 2015)
MENDOCINO COUNTY firefighters have filed a citizen initiative to address the danger posed by millions of trees killed and left standing in the forest. ALBION-LITTLE RIVER fire chief Ted Williams...
View ArticleMommy Dearest
Last Tuesday, July 28th, in what might be called a local sign of the apocalypse, joint child molesters, Charles Griswould and Jacqueline Vanbezooyen-Scarlet, were both, at long last, put away at the...
View ArticleHoefest 2015
For several weeks we've had nothing but blue skies, breezes, and low humidity in the Ohio Valley, and the ten-day forecast calls for more of the same. Our climate seems to be headed in a Mediterranean...
View ArticleThe Stony Lonesome: Here Kitty
There is a particular type of addict known colloquially as a "garbagehead." I might more appropriately say that there's a general rather than particular stripe of enthusiast known suchly, because the...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Aug 5, 2015)
In today’s world, it seems that we all know too much about each other. Social media has some benefits certainly, but in terms of human development and interaction it’s dumbing us all down, in my humble...
View ArticleNear Miss
Monday. July 27, 2015. I’m coming home from Fort Bragg, heading south on Highway One in my little old white Toyota pickup truck, going fifty-miles-per-hour. The time is one o’clock on a warm sunny day....
View ArticleLetters (Aug 5, 2015)
In our review of the California Elections Code it has come to our attention that City Council has the ability to put the Initiative Prohibiting Social Service Organizations in the Central Business...
View ArticleFirst Friday Film Nights
AV Grange & AV Film Club Join Together in Cultural Community Contributions at the First Friday Film Nite August 7th. The Anderson Valley Film Club and the Anderson Valley Solar Grange #669 are...
View ArticleWillits Stagecoach Robber Miscalculates
It was early on a Sunday morning, a little after dawn, in 1891, and the Eureka-to-Ukiah stagecoach was slowly working its way up a steep grade, when a man stepped out from behind a tree. He was a young...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, Aug 6, 2015
Rocky Cooler; Forest Fires; Laytonville Grief; Scientist/Farmer Arrested; Catch of the Day; FB Pursestrings; Screener Wanted; Gargoyle; Military Culture; Clinton/Trump; The Blob; Social Media; Fake...
View ArticleDwarf Tossing (2002)
Here’s why I’m against the UN as a promoter of federalism and world guv’mint. This just in from Geneva, Switzerland, via Reuter’s wire: “UN upholds French ban on ‘dwarf-throwing.’” It turns out that a...
View ArticleP.S. 30 Chronicles
P.S. 30 was an elementary school in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx. It included grades Pre-K to 5. Mott Haven was one of the poorest neighborhoods in the Bronx. Rates of Tuberculosis, AIDS,...
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