Valley People (July 9, 2014)
THE SAD NEWS has reached us from Arizona that Sandy Liebig has died. Sandy and her husband Larry lived in central Boonville when their three children — two girls and two boys — were of school age. With...
View ArticleOff the Record (July 9, 2014)
ED KOWAS is gone, dead of a heart attack at 73. His talk show on KMFB out of Mendocino was a must-listen for years, and continued to be a must-listen after Ed returned to the Coast after a stay in the...
View ArticlePlaying The Blues (Patrick Ford, Part 2)
When I was four, my parents gave me a toy drum kit, and then later in second grade I took piano lessons for awhile, then along about 6th grade I started really getting interested in drums. I played in...
View ArticleSports Cashew
Sacramento, my sports town, and I’m not talking about the NBA Kings. It’s World Cup soccer, the USA Track and Field championships, MLS minor league soccer and Triple-A baseball. USA! The soccer chant...
View ArticleHuffman’s Trespass Grow Forum
The vexing problem of trespass marijuana grows was probed at a forum convened by North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman, who emphasized the need for collaboration between police and wildlife agencies...
View ArticleAirbnb: Past, Present, Future
City governments from San Francisco to Fort Bragg have figured out that Airbnb rentals are often subverting local business, zoning, and taxation laws and regulations.
View ArticleFor What It’s Worth
“I call it the paranoid style simply because no other word adequately evokes the qualities of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy that I have in mind. ….It is the use of...
View ArticleBe There For Mark & Charlie
I first met Mark Pitner backstage at the Variety Show, where he helped me get my horse, Alma, onstage. He was very kind and helpful, and I was impressed by his calm and humorous demeanor. I had only...
View ArticlePerceptions of Wealth
Say what we will about the silliness of Hillary Clinton claiming to be dead broke when she and Bill exited the White House in 2001 to make way for George “Picasso” Bush, at least her ridiculous boast...
View ArticleWhy The Corps Shut Down The Bypass
New details have come to light regarding the US Army Corps of Engineers’ June 20th decision to suspend the Willits Bypass’ US Clean Water Act permit (404 permit): the first time the Corps has ever...
View ArticleHugh Scaramella: December 21, 1948 – July 5, 2014
The Republican convention of July 1952 was the first televised national convention. Although my younger brother Hugh was only four years old, he sat, transfixed, for all five days. Dwight Eisenhower,...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, July 10, 2014
Hopland News; Huffman's Bypass Statement; Shimmins Fire; CHP's Message; Indians in Elk; Sandwich Robber; Officer Beater; Catch of the Day; Survey Questions; Garden News; Immigration and Citizenship;...
View ArticleRepub CenCom to Meet in Ukiah
The Mendocino County Republican Central Committee will meet Saturday, July 19, 2014, 10:00 AM – 12:00 Noon at the Henny Penny Restaurant, 697 S. Orchard Ave (corner of Gobbi), Ukiah 95482. For further...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, July 11, 2014
Suspension Lifted; Shimmins Contained; Lopez Report; Leon Kowalski; El Niño; Water Regs; If; Hard Knocks; Fair Music; Federal Funding; Farmers' Market; Marijuana Busts; Traffic Stop; Catch of the Day;...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, July 12, 2014
Chief Whereas; Homeless Summer; Food Prices; Entitled Opinions; Vidal Movie; Kierkegaard Coffee; Gardens Project; Catch of the Day; Sheriff Reports; Obama Wrong; The Puzzle
View ArticleStacy Malkan!
Stacy Malkan! Janie Rezner’s guest on Women’s Voices, July 21, 7 pm, PT, will be Stacy Malkan of Friends of the Earth, discussing “Follow the Honey: 7 ways pesticide companies are spinning the bee...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, July 13, 2014
Supermoon; Supes Talk Water; Norcal Indians; Ukiah Council Candidates; Catch of the Day; Missing Person; Political Losers; I Want to Go; Power Seekers; Middle East Madness; Dangerous Appeasers
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, July 14, 2014 (free today)
Apfel Ousted; Stephen Gaskin; Arson Suspected; Water Hogs; Catch of the Day; Curiously; Norcal Water Deets; Whither Writers; SOD & Drought; Woodworking Show; Charlie Haden; Smelt Screwed
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Keegan Justice; Auditor Triple Dip; Food Needs; Redwood Logging Documentary; Rebecca Johnson Art; Sheriff Reports; Catch of the Day; Don MacQueen; Nadine Gordimer; Price of War; Last and Best; Freedom...
View ArticleThe Wild Mendohoulas!
Something Old, Something New: Willits Kinetic Carnivale Offers Whimsical Weekend For All Ages Magical Music & Theatre Acts Create Atmosphere Mendocino County Museum’s 3rd Annual Willits Kinetic...
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