Marijuana was by no means the first boom crop to delight my home county of Humboldt, here in Northern California, five hours drive from San Francisco up Route 101. Leaving aside the boom of appropriating land from the Indians, there was the timber boom which crested in the 1950s when Douglas fir in the Mattole [...]
The unthinkable has been thunk. The supervisors discussed the elimination of healthcare coverage for County retirees under the age of 65.
A BIG WET WATER SCAM Editor: The Central Valley of California spans almost the length of the state. It lies in a generally north-south direction. The valley is bounded on the east by the Sierra Nevada mountains and on the west by the Coast Range. The Valley is like a long, narrow bathtub with but [...]
by John Ross
When I first returned to Mexico City in the wake of the great 1985 earthquake, the biggest drug pushers in that distant neighbor nation were Sherwin Williams Paint (“tinner” or “activo”) and Resistol-Dupont glue (“chemo.”) Street kids were huffing down gallons of these pernicious intoxicants in the allies and sewers of this monster megalopolis. A [...]
Greetings one and all — if you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin… With the summer approaching and The Valley ‘getting its groove on’ as some might say, let’s get straight down to business with the latest Public Service Announcements… #64. The Vets from the Mendocino Animal Hospital are making their monthly visit to [...]
by Steve Sparks
I met with Tom at his home in Rancho Navarro and following a warm welcome from his collies, Nell and Emma, we sat down with a cup of tea and some toast and began our chat. Tom was born in Oakland in 1947, the third child of John English and Ruth Denson. His siblings are [...]
by Jim Gibbons
It was just me and my son Riley leading the 17th Annual Boontling Classic 5K runners west on Anderson Valley Way to the turnaround. As we hit the mile in 5:36, I said “Just like a training run”, and through heavy breathing he answered, “Yeah”. If he sounded insincere it was probably because our training [...]
by Todd Walton
The copious rains of 2010 made Big River the big muddy for much of the winter, the beach in late April grandiloquent with new sand. The probable summer beachscape is shaping up to be quite different than last year’s when a large shallow lagoon featured prominently and made a perfect swimming hole for kids to [...]
by Fred Gardner
Patients Out Of Time is a pro-cannabis reform group led by Al Byrne, a retired Naval officer, and MaryLynn Mathre, a Vietnam era nurse. Al survived two catastrophic events in which others died and over the years he’s had to deal with post-traumatic stress. He calls it PTS not PTSD. “It’s not a disorder, it’s [...]
Last Tuesday the Supreme Court patted America on the back about its specialness, its sacred right of free speech, by striking down a law which prohibited the selling of “crush” videos where kittens and other small animals are stomped to death for the sadistic sexual satisfaction of, well, people who have a God-given right to [...]
