HEADLINE in Friday's Press Democrat read “In need of rain, lots of it.” The “story” was accompanied by a photo of a drained, mudflat called Lake Mendocino. The story should be called, “In Need of…
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THE DAY of the Kennedy Assassination, I was a temporary English teacher at San Luis Obispo Junior High School. After high school, I'd done a tour in the Marines, picked up college classes at City…
CALTRANS claims that Will Parrish, all by himself, has cost the Willits Bypass project $500,000. DA Eyster seems to think the claim is reasonable, and is vowing to repeat-prosecute Parrish until he gets a conviction.…
Editor Oh, the irony! I have gone from living in a gorgeous Victorian apartment on sunny San Bruno Avenue to dwelling in a hideous cage in perpetually foggy San Bruno jail. My alleged crime is…
MY SISTER-IN-LAW, Diane Zucker, wife of my late brother, Ken, died last week. In my non-medical opinion she was killed by negligence at Sutter Health's California Pacific Medical Center, Buchanan and Clay, San Francisco. Diane…
DISASTERS large and small, Tuesday, the largest being a vegetation fire on Guntley Road, Navarro, which would place the blaze on the Holmes Ranch. First reports reached us at 1:30pm. “Send everything you have,” an…
THE MAMMOTH CASINO at Rohnert Park opened Tuesday. A joyous mob massed outside ran through the opening day doors to sit at 3,000 slot and video poker machines, blackjack tables and a variety of card…
Dave Helvarg is the author of a number of books, the most recent The Golden Shore: California's Love Affair with the Sea, a fascinating account of Helvarg's travels from one end of California's coast to…
There are movies I don’t like and there are movies I hate. I hated Gravity.