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KARMA MITE? Area pot farmers are in a major panic at the appearance of the hemp rust (or “russet”) mite. If this new pest gets into your pot garden, your garden is gone in a week or two. The hemp rust...
View ArticleCanPowerSF?
In 2004 San Francisco committed itself to a revolutionary economic and environmental rejuvenation project centered on complete overhaul of the city’s energy system. Or did it? The plan back then called...
View ArticleBorne Arms & Bare Behinds
Whistling down the Amtrak line in the region of Fernley, Nevada, about five in the afternoon, in the observation car under a lid of smoke from Sierra Nevada fires, scanning the murky sagebrush hills...
View ArticleHigh-Low Country
The free, independent spirit, the energy and hopefulness that have marked Americans are not causes, but results. They have sprung from unfenced land. Public Domain has given a consciousness of freedom...
View ArticleForces Of Nature
In my previous article on the three major, unpredictable forces of nature — wildfire, wind and earthquake — in Anderson Valley, I focused on wildfire and wind and my experiences during my valley years,...
View ArticleThe Way Of Things
“You are the music while the music lasts.”— T.S. Eliot My brother sent me a fascinating article published recently in New Scientist that warns of the impending loss of a gigantic part of our recent...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Let’s get things going with the Public Service Announcements. Calendars and pens at the ready. Subscribe now to access our...
View ArticleWake Up, Burners!
Wake up! The world is on fire! — Lawrence Ferlinghetti The giant Burning Man structure went up in flames on Labor Day weekend as usual, and I watched it — online. It looked very dramatic and...
View ArticlePanther Soccer 2013
The 2013 AV High School Boys’ soccer season began last week with two matches, both played here in Boonville alongside the high school at Tom Smith Field.Subscribe now to access our entire site—only $25...
View ArticleSome Call It Legalization
Attorney General Eric Holder phoned the governors of Colorado and Washington August 29 to advise that the U.S. Department of Justice will allow implementation of the marijuana-law reforms enacted by...
View ArticleHuffman Hawks Obama’s Healthcare Ponzi
No one said that it was going to be easy to reform healthcare in America. An array of roadblocks has frustrated every attempt to even debate healthcare reform. It was always understood that insurance...
View ArticleI Was Born At A Very Early Age
I guess you could say the idea of Brock Farms started at an early age. I was hooked at 12 by the magic that you can plant this little seed and you get a watermelon, or this one a carrot, and this one a...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: September 4, 2013
IT COULD HAPPEN HERE! The Albany County (New York) sheriff says a 50-year-old man is dead after being nearly decapitated by a wire he had strung on his property to protect a marijuana crop from...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
‘A BUNCH OF MOPES’? Editor, If anyone who may have read Bill Brundage’s letter on the topic of racial profiling is scratching their head over the contradictions, or in latter-day terms — “cognitive...
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Mendocino County Today: September 5, 2013
Coate KZYX’S SELDOM SEEN station manager, John Coate, is in Australia to attend a radio conference, and news blurb guy Paul Lambert is on vacation. Lambert’s interim replacement is a fellow called...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: September 6, 2013
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT announced Wednesday it’s going to charge for its on-line edition. Bad idea. The PD doesn’t do anything worth paying for. The SF Chron just tried a pay-to-read scheme the Chron...
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Mendocino County Today: September 7, 2013
THE ORACLE SPEAKS: The AVA emailed KZYX General Manager John Coate on Thursday: Hello, Mr. Coate: Is your trip to Australia funded by our public radio station? Thank you, Bruce Anderson, AVA * * * Mr....
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Mendocino County Today: September 8, 2013
“BUT IF THOUGHT CORRUPTS LANGUAGE, language can also corrupt thought.” — George Orwell, 1984 IN THE FOLLOWING, Mendocino County manages to corrupt both language and thought. * * * THE FIRST ITEM on...
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Mendocino County Today: September 9, 2013
THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS began for me Saturday noon at the foot of Market Street, San Francisco, where a very large, unhappy woman was bellowing insults at indifferent passersby. Anymore, unless a street...
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Mendocino County Today: September 10, 2013
PATRICK GUZMAN, 70, of Fort Bragg, was reported missing September 3rd when his white, 1999 Cadillac Deville, was found with the engine running in a pullout off Highway One near Westport. Five days...
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