Ordinarily, when dumb exchanges between public officials occur at public meetings, it’s just dumb, and maybe somewhat revealing about the public officials involved. But at the August 17 meeting of the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, an exchange, prompted primarily by Fourth District Supervisor Kendall Smith’s extreme arrogance and thin skin, was not only dumb [...]
I have been at a loss as to how to go from a post about death to justabout anything else. Suffice to say my dear friend is no longer using her hospital bed. She went peacefully with family and really, what more can you ask? However, amid all the death and esoteric wonderings- the little [...]
California is in the slo-mo process of merging wine and marijuana into two branches of the same Intoxication industry. The merger is still in its early stages, but the outlines of it are starting to appear, especially with Proposition 19, California’s “Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010,” looking like it will pass in [...]
My friend is sick and in bed at home, dying. (I know, bummer of a blog post, aye? Would you rather I did movie reviews? Don’t answer that.) I had a high school counselor give me some unappreciated and unsolicited insight once. He said, “Jes, if you hang out in the deep end of the [...]
Yosemite 2010. It was an epic trip. My climbing buddies from our J-Tree adventure, some of their siblings, my son and of course, our climbing guide. We arrived a lot later than anticipated to our campsite in Tuolomne Campground. Quiet time is stated @ 10pm. We didn’t get in until after that but were luckily [...]
Fort Bragg City Council was going to allow a fundraiser block party in the streets of the city. Then they canceled it and kept a $5,000 deposit EcoMotion laid down for the event. Now, after a lot of bad noise, they’re giving it back. According to Nicole Kench, EcoMotion event promoter and founder, city manager [...]
How do you estimate the commercial value of Mendo Mellow? What do you count? Plants? Processed bud? It’s a bit like counting grains of sand on the beach.
So on the way home from picking my boy up from hanging out with his dad this evening, we’re driving through Fort Bragg. The car is packed because we’re leaving on a climbing trip to Yosemite tomorrow morning. At the stoplight on the corner of Main and Redwood Streets, I reach back and hold his [...]
No, no. It’s not what you may think. This is a story told by my father about an experience he had while he was in college at UC Davis. It was 1928 and my grandfather, a dairyman with a small herd near Manchester on the Mendocino Coast at the time, had made arrangements with Professor [...]
It’s a warm and gray morning. A blanket of clouds covers the Azores, casting a blue-gray shadow across the Atlantic. Some clouds creep slowly across the flanks of the towering volcano on the nearby island of Pico. A few appear anchored to the mountain’s peak. Clouds partially obscure the coastline of Faial, the other nearby [...]
