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Mendocino County Today: July 25, 2013
WHAT’S BLACK and never works? Decaf, you racist dog! ======================================================== EARLY POLLING shows Hillary Clinton leading the Democratic pack by a wide margin, with a...
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Mendocino County Today: July 26, 2013
BACK IN 2011, the Mendo Board of Supervisors discussed logging the 57 County-owned acres of timber near the Little River Airport. It was a long discussion, a very long discussion, centered around...
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Mendocino County Today: July 27, 2013
A 15-YEAR-OLD runaway from a Los Angeles group home was apparently kidnapped and kept as a sex slave on a Lake County marijuana farm. The Los Angeles Police Department says the girl was taken by Ryan...
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Mendocino County Today: July 28, 2013
THE RECENT WILLITS NEWS editorial about last week’s arrest of the paper’s photographer, Mr. Eberhard, at the Willits Bypass construction site, says the Bypass is needed to relieve the overload on...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 29, 2013
ACCORDING to an AP report that claims AP has “exclusive survey data,” (data they paid for) four out of five American adults “struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least...
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Mendocino County Today: July 30, 2013
THAT LETHAL FIVE-CAR pile-up on Highway 20 near the Potter Valley turn-off? Captain Randy Johnson of the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department kicked it off when he stopped to make a left turn into his...
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Mendocino County Today: July 31, 2013
THIS JUST IN: Coast fishermen report lots of big salmon but ominously few little salmon. No babies would seem to mean that good as this salmon season is, next year’s probably won’t be very good at all....
View ArticleRegulating Rodenticides
Several weeks after the approval of a resolution discouraging the use and sale of rodenticides, the HumCo Board of Supervisors has been updated on the state’s proposal to restrict them and ban retail...
View ArticleSunshine In A Minor Key
Whether on silver screen or in symphony hall, it can be a curse to be type cast. So consummately did Bach play the part of a composer of learned fugues that his lighter side is too often ignored. The...
View ArticleWhat Real Immigration Reform Would Look Like
Oralia Maceda, an immigrant mother from Oaxaca, asked the obvious last weekend in Fresno. At a meeting, talking about the Senate immigration reform bill, she wanted to know why Senators would spend...
View ArticleA Bullet, A Babe & The End Of An Era
When I was growing up south of Los Angeles, anything north of, say, Santa Barbara seemed like Alaska. Or, almost. Certainly up above San Francisco was mysterious and exotic. On first visits, way up...
View ArticleGlovebox Banditry
Pedestrian crime in Willits is on the rise. Two cases have come to court recently, and both the footpads were found guilty. One was Sara Grusky, the Willits Bypass protester who walked on the wrong...
View ArticleValley People
ROBERT TOMPKINS, 74, has died at his Philo home. Mr. Tompkins is survived by his wife, Shirley, and his son, Chris Tompkins, owner-operator of Northwest Tire and Oil, Philo.Subscribe now to access our...
View ArticleDetroit’s Pensions
Having gorged unsustainably on the public sector of Michigan’s largest city for decades, having left empty schools, libraries, and office buildings like gnawed bones scattered about a massacre, having...
View ArticleHoly Cross Mountain
“Go west, young man.” — Horace Greeley When Peg-Leg Barlow and his mule came down from his prospects up under Colorado’s Great Divide, he wasn’t old Peg-Leg anymore. “I’ve been beautified!” he cried...
View ArticleEarth Of Foxes
“‘Men have forgotten this truth,’ said the fox. ‘But you must not forget it. You become responsible forever for what you have tamed’.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery “The baby foxes are here again,” says...
View ArticleRiver Views
On July 31, 1703 Daniel Dafoe (nee Foe) was placed in the punishment stocks in front of London’s Temple Bar for satirically defending Dissenters in his writing. In the early 20th century Supreme Court...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. So there is a new Royal Baby! An event that was part historical “happening,” part nativity play, part soap opera, and one that...
View ArticleFarm To Farm
With the exception of a few heat waves in mid July that never lasted more than a couple days in the mid nineties, the unusually cool summer continues in the Ohio valley. Sterile clouds sail overhead in...
View ArticleHysteria, Madness & The Forgotten War
Sixty years ago this week the “forgotten war” came to an inconclusive end. The Korean war was perfectly mistimed for me. On 25 June 1950, the day I graduated from the University of California, Los...
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