Mendocino County Today: Sunday, June 29, 2014
Happy Crazy Talk; How Old is Old; More Sex; Reagan's Homeless; Progressive Wing; Regional Warmaking; Catch of the Day; Look Back; GMO Deception; Drilling Loophole; Andy Owes Craig
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, June 30, 2014
June 30 POOR UPPER-LEVEL MANAGEMENT and the absence of predictable funding continue to plague state parks, always a matter of great concern in Mendocino County where our state parks draw thousands of...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 (free today)
Water Trough Era; Nash Mill Weed; Boonville Fourth; Good Sandwich; Water Rights; Engr Rules; Mental Health; Highway Tragedy; Catch of the Day; Firewood Permits; Missing Diver; Goodbye Viola; Ukiah...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Highway Tragedy; Water Money; KZYX Spitgate; Mental Health Dollars; Catch of the Day; Body Found; Ukiah Quarantine; Willits Outage; Writers Conference; Napa-Lake Fire; Troop Tripping; Ma Joad; Worst...
View ArticleBiggest Bear History Mystery
As a bookseller at Gallery Bookshop I recently had the pleasure of selling a 60 year old but ever-wonderful picture book called “The Biggest Bear” by Lynd Ward. As the grandparent buying this classic...
View ArticleValley People (July 2, 2014)
TWO LOCAL CALLERS this week were alarmed at the swathes of dead trees they could see on Mendocino Redwood Company land to the northwest. MRC uses an herbicide to kill non-commercial trees. Another...
View ArticleBut She Said I Didn’t Do It
Tyler Elza was shocked when his jury took only an hour to tell him he was a woman-beating son of a bitch. Elza couldn’t believe it. Hell, the woman had just told the jury that he was innocent. How was...
View ArticleLetters (July 2, 2014)
Privatization of Mental Health Services failed. Proof lies in: two Grand Jury Reports, Mental Health Board Reports, Coast Hospital Mental Health Forum List of Ortner Problems, and countless human...
View ArticleWatching & Listening
Prior to television taking over virtually every home in America by the end of the 1950’s, there were several hundred weekly and monthly magazines in America publishing multiple short stories per issue...
View ArticleThe Sounds Of Sierra Fest
Saturday's closer Shaggy, a superstar dancehall reggae singer/toaster of the 1990s, was a controversial headliner from the start - months before the show, online comments like "Shaggy? LOL" appeared,...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (July 2, 2014)
On Sunday morning, as I drowned my sorrows following Mexico’s exit from the World Cup after a heart-breaking loss in the last minute to the Dutch, I tried to remember that when things seem at their...
View ArticleTravels With Charlie
As many of you have already heard, on Wednesday of last week Charlie Paget Seekins was very seriously injured when he fell from a tree he was working in. Charlie is the son of Diane Paget and Bill...
View ArticleA Very Long Walk
We’re at that time between the Comptche Volunteer Fire Department’s Father’s Day picnic and the similar one put on by the Albion-Little River Fire Department. The Macdonald Ranch lies within the...
View ArticleThe First Longhair In Town
If you’re an old timer around these parts, you know the Ford family, and the four Ford boys, Steve, Patrick, Robben, and Mark. The brothers are locals and have played music around Mendocino County and...
View ArticleOff the Record (July 2, 2014)
THERE’S A SUSPICIOUSLY well-informed character calling him or herself ‘Engr Rules’ haunting the websites that discuss the Willits Bypass. This person attempts to refute pretty much everything Bypass...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, July 3, 2014
Wildfire Burning; Pinizzotto Conflict; Water Money; Massey vs KZYX; Viola Richardson; Don't Go; Before Logging; River Trespass; Catch of the Day; Domestic Altercation; Bear Encounter; Water Warming;...
View ArticleFIFA’s Music
If forced to choose between a close-range battering from the vuvuzela—the infamous plastic horn that pierced the global eardrum during the last World Cup held in South Africa—and the current batch of...
View ArticleThree Hundred Berets
Last week President Obama ordered three hundred Green Berets to Iraq. Why? The Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (ISIS or ISIL — take your pick) has taken over western Iraq, gleefully lopping heads...
View ArticleLife’s Shuffle; Death’s Dance
Produced in 1981, playwright, Paula Vogel, has created a smart script. It lays down the newly defined economic world, now known as “Reaganomics,” onto the fabric of the oldest and the most defamed of...
View ArticleCelebrating The Fourth With The Enemy
The Fourth of July, as we all know, is Independence Day. Hurray for George Washington and the revolutionaries, down with King George and the British. That sort of thing. But have you ever wondered what...
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