Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018

• Daniel Woolley
• Area Closure
• Local Assistance
• Complex Update
• Matthew Burchett
• Chain Fires
• Blake Bust
• Burnt County
• Doctor Arrest
• Hipps Replaced
• Resisting Districting
• Special Meeting
• Little Dog
• Trumpeter Search
• Spineless
• Director Schultz
• Yesterday's Catch
• Night Lights
• Poleeko Fish
• Mental Shackles
• Napafication
• All Caps
• Socialism Preferred
• Broadband Alliance

DANIEL WOOLLEY

Daniel Fredrick Woolley born January 22nd, 1958 to June and John Woolley of Ukiah CA. He was a Mendocino county native and was well known for his exceptional driving skills as a truck driver. Dan was always there if you ever needed anything, he would try and help, I don't know what was bigger his heart or his beard. He is survived by his loving wife of 27 years Tina Woolley, mother June Woolley, brothers James Marmon, Steven Marmon, his sister Karen Goodman Stratman, his daughters Rebecca Woolley (Clearlake), Alicia Luiz (Lakeport), Jennifer Woolley-Staton (Norfolk VA), and many many more loved ones! Services will be held on August 25th at 11am at the Potter Valley Cemetery on the 9200 block of West Road in Potter Valley CA. A Celebration of life will follow at the Potter Valley Rodeo Grounds located in Potter Valley on Main Street.

Donations to help with funeral and burial costs can be made directly to Eversole Mortuary in Ukiah. http://www.eversolefs.com

RANCH FIRE CAUSES ADDITIONAL AREA CLOSURE

WILLOWS, Calif. - Forest officials have issued a new order closing a large area of the Mendocino National Forest, including the entire Upper Lake Ranger District and part of the Grindstone Ranger District, due to activity from the Ranch Fire. The purpose of the closure is to provide safety for the public and for the firefighters. Forest Supervisor Ann Carlson reminds the public, "The closure of the fire area is necessary to help ensure that no one is injured within or near the fire area. We still have a lot of work to do on the Ranch Fire and we need your cooperation to keep the area clear so that our firefighters can perform their job safely."

The boundary of the Ranch Fire Closure Area begins at the intersection of County Road No. 301 and the Mendocino National Forest Boundary (Forest Boundary), then continues west and north along the Forest Boundary to where it intersects the Covelo Ranger District boundary on Long Doe Ridge, then continues east along south side of the Covelo Ranger District boundary to its intersection with Forest Road No. M1, then continues south along the west side of Forest Road No. M1 to its intersection with Forest Road No. M61, then continues east along the south side of Forest Road No. M61 to its intersection with Forest Road No. M6, then continues east along the south side of Forest Road No. M6 to its intersection with Forest Road No. M3, then continues south along the west side of Forest Road No. M3 to its intersection with Glenn County Road No. 308, then east along the south side of Glenn County Road No. 308 to its intersection with the Forest Boundary, then south, west, and north along the entirety of the remaining Forest Boundary back to its starting point, as shown in Exhibits A and B.

The area is closed due to fire suppression and rehabilitation activities that create a hazard to the public, including the use of heavy equipment, the falling of hazard trees weakened by the fire and the construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance of fuels breaks. The closure will remain in place until hazards to the public are diminished. Forest Order No. 08-18-14 supersedes Order No. 08-18-13 dated Aug. 3, 2018. The order and exhibits are posted here: https://tinyurl.com/ybtd8y2b.

REPORTING FROM THE FRONT...

The Bartlett Springs/Hough Springs Road is still hard closed at State Highway 20 just east of Nice.  The Lucerne Alpine Senior Center is hosting the Local Assistance Center organized by the County of Lake, with state and local agencies on hand as well as the American Red Cross (with medical assistance present) and faith-based organizations such as Tzu Chi, Catholic Charities, Episcopal Disaster Services, United Methodist Committee on Relief, and others.

Hundreds of residents in our Northshore Communities (from either end of Highway 20, Mendocino to Colusa Counties), including Blue Lakes, North Scotts Valley Road, Saratoga Springs, Witter Springs, Bachelor Valley, Upper Lake, Nice, Lucerne, Glenhaven, Clearlake Oaks, and Spring Valley, are being served throughout the long, hot days – the LAC opens at 10 am, and some are arriving as early as 7:30 am to get in line – but the process is served efficiently by the Lake County Department of Social Services and there have been no noticeably untoward events throughout the long days.  The Department of Social Services staff does not leave the facility until the last person of the day has been seen.  Frickin amazing work.

Our friends in the Lake Pillsbury area are urged to evacuate, but some (or many?) have not; CalFire is slaving away at holding the line south of the subdivision and surrounding households.  I don't know how these people do it – the exact opposite of the image of the millenial brain-drained/uncaring fools we hear about all day on Facebook.

Taking a ride up Elk Mountain Road tomorrow afternoon.  Peace out.

Betsy Cawn Upper Lake, CA

CALFIRE'S MENDOCINO COMPLEX UPDATE (Wednesday 7am): 363,845 acres; 64% containment.

"The Ranch Fire continues to threaten the Mendocino National Forest as well as communities that reside north of the fire perimeter. Throughout the night, the Ranch Fire progressed north, steep and rugged terrain, dry fuel, and hot weather continue to challenge suppression efforts. Overnight fire crews constructed control lines and implemented new dozer lines, tying together preexisting containment barriers. Crews continued structure preparation and defense in the communities threatened by the Ranch Fire. Today operations will focus on the northwest and northeast edges of the Ranch Fire, while continuing to develop strategic plans to slow the northern push towards Lake Pillsbury. The south side of the fire has had no significant events and remains in suppression repair and patrol status. The River Fire had no movement. Suppression repair along with patrol will continue on the River Fire."

cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/pub/cdf/images/incidentfile2175_4018.pdf

"THIS WILL BE FELT ACROSS THE COUNTRY"

Firefighter Killed In Ranch Fire Hit By Tree

pressdemocrat.com/news/8634595-181/firefighter-who-died-battling-mendocino

The Utah firefighter who died Monday near Lake Pillsbury has been identified as Battalion Chief Matthew Burchett, 42.

“He’s the most knowledgeable wildland firefighter I know,” said Draper City Utah Battalion Chief Bart Vawdrey.

From the Salt Lake City Tribune:

“The entire community of Draper is mourning his loss,” said Mayor Troy K. Walker, adding that Burchett left behind a wife and son. Flags at Draper City Hall were quickly lowered to half-staff; the city fire department added a black band across its shield online.

The details of what happened to the firefighter, who died in a hospital after being injured earlier in the day, have not been released.

Burchett began work for the Draper City Fire Department in May, after 20 years working for the Unified Fire Authority.

City officials said Burchett was hired away from Utah’s Unified Fire Authority in May by the Draper Fire Department specifically because of his extensive knowledge battling wildfires during his 20-plus year career as a firefighter.

THE COVELO DRAG CHAIN FIRES

On 8/05/2018 the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office was advised of 15 separate fires that started north of the town of Covelo in the valley floor of Round Valley. At the time these fires were reported there was a heightened awareness of fire danger due to several ongoing incidents, The Eel Fire, east of Covelo in the Mendocino National Forest and the Mendocino Complex, two large fires, burning between Mendocino and Lake Counties. Due to the large number of fires that started in a relative short time frame (between noon and 3:00 PM) the community was naturally alarmed. Five of these fires were started opposite the Round Valley Tribal Gas Station and Store on Highway 162, nine were started along Crawford and Refuse Roads, and one was started near the intersection of Biggar Lane and Highway 162. While no residences were lost, one of these fires destroyed a large amount of wood fencing and threatened numerous homes and outbuildings. Rumors began to circulate within the community of a possible active arsonist within the community. A potential suspect was named and described as having been in a vehicle in the area where two of the fires were started. In an effort to address the community’s concerns the Mendocino County Sheriff's Patrol Division, the Detectives Division, Covelo Volunteer Fire Department, and CalFire personnel initiated an investigation into the possible cause and origin of the fires. A video surveillance system revealed the person who had been named as a possible suspect had a similar vehicle but found to not have the same vehicle that had been seen in the immediate area. This person was contacted, interviewed, and denied any involvement in starting of any fires. This person fully cooperated with law enforcement during this investigation. In viewing surveillance tapes a second vehicle was identified and the owner contacted. This person had been towing a recently acquired trailer and admitted to having driven the same routes, in the immediate time frames as all the fires having started. An examination of the vehicle tow chains showed significant wear from "dragging" on the ground. A CalFire fire investigator was consulted and agreed the starts appeared to be consistent with a chain dragging behind a trailer and did not appear to be fires that were intentionally set. The case has been closed as accidental and will be handled in a non-criminal manner. The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office would like to remind the public that we are facing extreme fire behavior. Firefighters are currently facing many large fires so resources are stretched thin. The public is encouraged to use all precautions to limit the potential fire threats from daily activities.

(Mendocino County Sheriff’s Press Release)

THE BLAKE MOUNTAIN POT BUST

On August 13, 2018, deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) served one search warrant to investigate illegal cannabis cultivation in the Blake Mountain area. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Humboldt County Environmental Health and HAZMAT Unit and the Humboldt County Planning and Building Department assisted in the service of the warrant.

One parcel was investigated during the service of the warrant. The parcel did not possess nor was in the process of actively obtaining a commercial cannabis permit with the County of Humboldt.

During the service of the warrant, deputies eradicated approximately 8,855 growing cannabis plants. Deputies also located and seized six firearms.

Assisting agencies found the following violations:

– Three water diversion violations (up to $8,000 fine per day, per violation)

– Commercial cannabis ordinance violations (up to $10,000 fine per day)

– Two improper storage and removal of solid waste violations (up to $25,000 fine per day, per violation)

– Twenty-three grading without a permit violations (up to $10,000 fine per day, per violation)

– Eleven building code violations (up to $10,000 fine per day, per violation)

– Three timber-clearing violations (up to $8,000 fine per day, per violation)

– Three illegal pond violations

– Junk cars violations

No arrests were made during the service of the warrant.

Anyone with information about these cases or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539

(Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office press release)

I'M OUTTA HERE (LAKE COUNTY)

A Los Angeles Times analysis found that more than 50% of the county’s land has been burned since 2012. And it has sparked debate for some residents about whether living in this rural enclave about 120 miles north of San Francisco is worth it.

latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-lake-county-fire-epicenter-20180814-story.html

PHYSICIAN CONTROL THYSELF.

Dr. Ben Meyer is one of the Ukiah Adventist Hospital's top coronary guys, but it's a wonder he didn't suffer one himself Sunday in a Potter Valley set-to involving a horse, friends, a gun and deputies.

The professional classes do pick up a DUI here and there, but an old fashioned cowboy ruckus? We'll be following this one.

yelp.com/biz/ben-meyer-md-facc-ukiah

MENDOCINO COUNTY Assistant Public Defender Christiane Marie Hipps was axed from her post at 5 o’clock Monday afternoon. It was the County's Human Resources (Personnel) wielding the ax. Hipps, formerly of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, has been acting as caretaker of our Public Defender’s Office since the retirement of long-time Public Defender Linda Thompson. No one is officially saying why Hipps was shown the door, but when it became public Tuesday morning, the comment most often heard was, “What took so long?” Expect the defense side of the courthouse equation to be in turmoil for the near future – but is that really anything new?

POLITICAL COURAGE being so rare these days, and virtually unknown in Mendocino County, the Fort Bragg City Council's unanimous 5-0 vote to resist district voting under threat of an expensive lawsuit deserves a prolonged standing ovation. Supposedly backed by a secret committee of the righteous alleging that Mexican-Americans are not proportionally represented by FB's City Council, an unemployed attorney named Jacob Patterson said he will sue if Fort Bragg doesn't go to district elections.

AS A READER PUTS IT, "How many are in this invisible committee? Would we be surprised when/if we ever find out? I doubt it. If something is important enough for a person/committee to try and change something as important as voting you would think they would be proud to let others know who they are. Thank you to all the Council members for making a move to protect our voting rights. Thank you to Ruben Alcala who is running for Council for speaking out on this issue. I think Fort Bragg can accomplish a lot if people stick together for what is best for our community as a whole. I have never been more proud of our Council than I was last night."

SPECIAL MEETING of the Coast Hospital board of directors Thursday, August 16th at 10:00 am in the Redwoods Room. In the nonce, Norman deVall wonders, "Candidates are not employees; why the closed session? Also wondering if the City of Fort Bragg has to elect council members by equal districts then why not the Mendocino Coast Hospital District?"

LITTLE DOG SAYS, “Skrag's been strolling by lately crooning, 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.' I told him it was inappropriate when there are fires everywhere. So here comes with his girl friend singing it as a duet! He's gotta go.”

HELP WANTED

Do you play trumpet? Do you know anyone who does? We're looking; spread the word

The Swingin' Boonville Big Band is looking for some talent to fill in the trumpet section. We need someone with some big band experience who can commit to at least two Wednesday night rehearsals a month. We rehearse in Mendocino and Boonville from 7 til 10PM on alternating Wednesdays. Our gigs are on Saturday nights except for the annual 4th of July gig.

Contact Bob Ayres, 937 0059, knotsure@gmx.com

HERESSSSSSS, BRENT!

Appointment Of Brent Schultz As Planning And Building Services Director For The County Of Mendocino

The Mendocino County of Board of Supervisors is pleased to announce the appointment of Brent Schultz as Planning and Building Services Director for Mendocino County. Mr. Schultz joins the County after serving as the Housing and Municipal Services Director for the City of Ontario since 2013. Mr. Schultz has a Public Administration Degree from California State University of Fullerton and a Masters of Business Administration from Chapman University. In his free time, he enjoys being with his family, traveling, or flying his airplane.

Dan Hamburg, 5th District Supervisor, and current Board Chair, commented on Mr. Schultz’s appointment “Mr. Schultz brings 30 years of municipal government experience in housing, redevelopment and planning. He is enthusiastic to step into a County leadership role and has a commitment to streamlining regulatory processes that will serve our County well in the coming years.”

Commenting on his appointment, Mr. Schultz stated: “I’m excited to be working for the citizens of Mendocino County and look forward to meeting the Planning and Building team and the entire County organization. I’m ready to get new projects off the ground, from small projects like room additions, to brand new homes, to new housing for our growing community and for those who are rebuilding after devastating fires; I love every aspect of the job and hope I can be a helpful resource for my staff and the public.”

For more information, please contact the Mendocino County Executive Office at (707) 463-4441.

Carmel J. Angelo, Chief Executive Officer

CATCH OF THE DAY, August 14, 2018

LEAH KILLIAN, Arlington, Washington/Laytonville. DUI.

JAMERSON RING, Ukiah. Disorderly conduct-alcohol.

JESSE VICKERS, Ukiah. Maintaining a drug house, offenses while on bail.

ERIN WINKLER, Fort Bragg. Failure to appear, probation revocation.

NIGHT LIGHTS OF THE NORTH COAST

Camping in the King Range

by David Wilson

The Fall Equinox of September 21, 2017 found me camping beneath the stars on Paradise Ridge in Southern Humboldt’s King Range, a BLM-managed area of our beautiful and famous Lost Coast. Friends I’ve known since childhood had invited me out to join them for a night of stargazing and Milky Way photography in one of their huge glamping tents from their Wayward Glamping business. As we set up our camp, early clouds dampened my hopes for clear skies, but by nightfall, the curtains had pulled apart to reveal the celestial show.

The view from Paradise Ridge is spectacular. To the west, it overlooks the Pacific Ocean north of Shelter Cove and south of Kings Peak which is the highest point in the range at 4091 feet. To the east of the ridge, the view includes much of the South Fork of the Eel River’s watershed and far beyond to the dim horizon.

Because it is so remote, the King Range offers some of Humboldt’s darkest skies, which is perfect for astrophotography and stargazing.

As usual in my night photography, these photographs were taken with the light sensitivity (ISO) set extremely high, the lens opened wide, and a long exposure of nearly 30 seconds. With those settings, the camera saw the dimmest of light far brighter than my eye could. I couldn’t see as many stars with my naked eye, nor quite as much detail in the Milky Way. The tent was illuminated with the tiniest of lights, I think it was a single candle. It hardly made the canvas glow. Yet look how well the camera picked it all up. My camera, open fairly wide for 30 seconds at high ISO, saw the candlelight brightly, picked out the faintest stars, and brought forth the Milky Way’s detail. Ahh, photography.

If you were to try this yourself, make sure you either have a tripod or a sturdy and secure surface to support your camera. Set it to manual focus and focus near infinity. Put it on manual exposure, open the aperture wide, and set your shutter speed to 20-30 seconds. Set the ISO to the highest. Take the picture and examine it on the camera LCD screen for exposure. Zoom in to check focus. Make necessary adjustments and shoot again. Good luck and have fun!

To see previous entries of “Night Lights of the North Coast,” click on my name above the article. If you’d like to keep abreast of my most current photography or peer into its past, you can follow me on Instagram at @david_wilson_mfx . I update my website mindscapefx.com less frequently.

MARY PAT PALMER dines out: "Poleeko: Philo. The second largest town in Anderson Valley, located 6 miles west of Boonville. (During elections in the early days, town issues were decided by a narrow margin of votes. Boonters said they “eeked it out at the polls” hence they became known as “poll eekers”.) And the Poleeko RoadHouse makes a very very fine fish and chips. Grilled fish was excellent."

ON LINE COMMENT OF THE DAY

I understand your pessimism and rage at people for letting themselves get played, not just for a little while, but for decades. You know the story, multitudes listening to the race and identity horse-shit, the tranny washroom baloney and those on the other side of the political ledger smilingly accepting their destitution as “good, proud, patriotic” Americans because this is what a – cough – free and unfettered market dictates.

Yet it does appear that Kansas isn’t buying the usual Republican bull-shit anymore as the election of Trump shows, the election of Ocasio-Cortez on the Democratic side may show some unloosening of the mental shackles there.

And you also have the example of history. It took a long time but the Czar and his family really did get stuck down a mine shaft, the Chinese, Cubans, Koreans, Vietnamese Cambodians really did up-end their ruling regimes for better or worse. And, further back in time, the French really did a number on their own ruling aristocracy.

Hope isn’t all lost IMO. As you say, it’s going to get interesting sooner rather than later.

THE COMING NAPAFICATION OF THE WORLD

by Jonah Raskin

Fly over Napa County, California, and what you see below are vineyards and industrial buildings for the mass production of wines. Roads crisscross the valley and climb into the hills and mountains. They also carry tourists from hotels and motels to vineyards, wineries and restaurants where they’re told that they’re seeing and tasting the real Napa. A woman who teaches wine marketing says that after a few days of tasting, eating and driving, most tourists don’t know whether they’re in Napa, Sonoma or Mendocino. That’s what happens in a monoculture.

Indeed, after a while, the landscape begins to look and feel remarkably similar all over “Wine Country.” Vines go up hill and down hill. (One agricultural writer said they made here think of troops in a regiment. Indeed there’s something militaristic about them.) Vines extend for as far as the eye can see. They also run along creek beds which are dry at least half the year because of climate change — Napa is hotter now than ever before — and because water tables are dropping. Wineries and vineyards suck water out of creeks and out of the ground. So, water is a big deal in Napa.

I am continually amazed that the wine industry goes on and on, year after year, that more grapes are planted, that vineyards are replanted, and that more people drink more wine than ever before. At times, it seems that the main pastime of people in Napa, Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties is drinking, eating, and ingesting locally grown cannabis which gets connoisseurs stoned in a minute or less, if it’s top grade weed.

Right now the wine and grape industry is trying to figure out how to combine forces with the cannabis industry and create new products to lure new consumers.

I have rarely heard anyone say they don’t drink wine or beer and don’t like them, though recently I met an environmental specialist for the city of Santa Rosa who said “Fuck grapes and fuck wine.”

We were standing on a platform on the edge of the Laguna de Santa Rosa, a vast watershed and wetland, that’s home to all kinds of birds, bees and insects that can’t survive in a vineyard. For those creatures, a vineyard is a desert, as one veteran Napa beekeeper told me. On that platform, the specialist and I could see a newly planted vineyard that struck us both as an affront to nature.

Napa Whole Foods Market sign, but no produce from Napa farms

These days, everywhere I go in Napa and everyone I meet, I ask “How much longer can the wine and grape economy last?” I have asked dozens of people and not a single one has given me a satisfactory answer, though some predict a long, extended life for the reign of the grape, while others predict imminent decline and fall.

It depends largely on water and on the banks.

Exceptions to the Napa ethnic rules and shoppers with their kids at St. Helena Farmers' Market

I am not eager for the collapse of the Napa wine economy; if and when that happens thousands of people will be out of work and unable feed, clothe and house themselves and their families. The governor will have to declare a state of emergency and call out the National Guard.

Most of the people who work in the grape and wine industry — they’re largely Latinos and Latinas — are employed by corporations, many of them foreign owned. They work hard and they work long hours. They are not in open revolt and they are not now asking consumers to boycott Napa wines made from Napa grapes. When César Chávez, Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers asked consumers to support their cause in the 1960s by boycotting grapes they were talking about table grapes, which don’t fetch nearly as much money on the market as wine grapes.

Some young, white farmers grow vegetables for multi-millionaires and for elite restaurants. Many are environmentally friendly, though one woman, who works for a Napa restaurant that has received the highest ratings from the Michelin Guide for over a decade, told me that she lived in “the land of milk and honey.” She also explained that the communications director at the company she works for denied her permission to talk to me. Increasingly, Napa is all about its image.

I also meet people who tell me that there are good men and good women making good wines and who are not harming the environment. I know there are. Some of them, like Will Bucklin at Old Hill Ranch, are my friends. I have written about them, their organic vineyards and organic wines. But they are not the masters of the industry and they are having a hell of a time surviving in unfriendly environments, some of them ecological, others social and political. Those growers and wine makers are a minority and they are getting smaller by the day.

Napa has given the English language at least one fairly new word: Napafication, which, according to The New York Times, is a worldwide trend. Under napafication, wine is controlled by corporations who care about the weight of the grapes at harvest, the price they fetch and the most efficient and profitable ways to market wines, which can sell for several hundred dollars a bottle. Hey, man, my wine is better than your wine.

Societies that grow one big crop, like societies that choose to go totalitarian, can last for decades, like the apartheid regime in South Africa. But sooner or later the power of the people catches up with them. Totalitarian societies decline and fall. Napafication, which is “totalitarianism lite,” aims to wipe out anything and everything that stands in its way.

The farmer, or more likely, the corporation, eliminates opposition, including all living things that undermine the drive for control and for profit. So, big agriculture fences in what it wants to exploit, and fences out what it wants to destroy. Then it sprays chemicals, kills weeds, crams crops into every single inch of cultivatable land, harvests every single grain of wheat, every ear of corn and every grape on every vine.

It turns workers into “hands,” industrializes production and creates what Carey McWilliams called “factories in the field” in his book of the same name, published in 1939, when Steinbeck published Grapes of Wrath. Both books, one fiction and the other non-fiction, tell stories about California agriculture that began — if one doesn’t count Native Americans who tended the landscape and cultivated crops — as capitalist agriculture. Now, California agriculture is capitalism on steroids.

In Grapes of Wrath, when a freaked-out farmer confronts a tractor driver demolishing the homes of evicted families, he asks, “Who can we shoot?” The tractor driver replies, “Maybe there’s nobody to shoot. Maybe the thing isn’t men at all. Maybe the property’s doing it.”

When that same tractor driver has lunch, he eats processed white bread, a pickle, some cheese, a piece of Spam and a slice of pie that, Steinbeck wrote, was “branded like an engine part.” There’s nothing alive and nothing nourishing about his meal on the fly.

Izzy from Big Ranch Farm

There’s no open rebellion against the grape and wine oligarchy, but there is political resistance in Napa, as there is in Venice, Italy and Barcelona, Spain, both of them tourist destinations that are losing their identities. Napa citizens go against the grain by growing fruits and vegetable, selling them at markets, at roadside stands and by subscriptions through “Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).” They’re defying the monoculture and the tyranny of wine.

Napa citizens, like Geoff Ellsworth, are running for public office, in part, to break the monopoly exercised by local newspapers and magazines that rarely if ever say anything negative or critical about grapes and wine.

Charlotte Helen Williams lives in Napa and has her finger on the pulse of Napa.

“Many people around here have small dreams inspired by too many glasses of wine,” she said. “They don’t share Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s big dream. They’re enthralled to the god, Bacchus, and if they have their way Napa will look like a factory.”

(Jonah Raskin is the author of For The Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman and American Scream: Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ and the Making of the Beat Generation.)

“Let’s just take one pass at it in all caps, see how it feels.”

'A CHANGE IS GONNA COME': Poll Shows Democratic Voters Like Socialism More Than Capitalism

"For the first time in Gallup's measurement over the past decade, Democrats have a more positive image of socialism than they do of capitalism," Gallup noted in a summary of its findings, which come as socialist candidates continue to surpass expectations, garner widespread enthusiasm, and win elections across the nation."

Link: commondreams.org/news/2018/08/13/change-gonna-come-poll-shows-democratic-voters-socialism-more-capitalism

BROADBAND! (We'll miss Trish Steele, who got us this far)

Broadband Alliance of Mendocino County - Admin Support RFP

Dear Friends,

The Economic Development and Financing Corporation (EDFC) has taken over the Mendocino County Broadband contract work that Trish Steel did such a great job with in the past. In this role EDFC will work with the North Bay North Coast Broadband Consortium, continue the development of a Broadband Plan for the county, and will work on developing broadband projects and searching for funding. Through this work, EDFC will continue to participate as a member of the Broadband Alliance of Mendocino County in the hopes that our joint efforts can move the needle on broadband. Kathy Wylie will initially take on the role as the Chair of the Broadband Alliance. In order to support the many years of work done by BAMC, EDFC will manage a contract funded by the Community Foundation to provide administrative support for the Alliance. Attached is an RFP for this contract. We are looking for a professional individual who is willing to take on this project as an independent contractor. Please forward this to anyone that you think might be interested. Proposals are due by Monday, August 27, 2018 at 8:00 am. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Diann Simmons
Program Director
Economic Development & Financing Corp.
A 501(c)3 Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI)
175 E. Church St., Ukiah CA 95482
707.234.5705
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