In 2008, 15-year-old Bryan Pearn won high honors at the California State Science Fair with a project that examined how widespread water thievery had damaged a creek near his house in Willits, California
Posts published by “Tim Stelloh”
Government dysfunction and water thieves in Willits--and the 15 year old battling them both
I've gotten some interesting--though not unpredictable--responses to an essay I wrote a few weeks ago about how the term "mainstream media" is used as political…
I just finished Jeffrey Toobin's excellent—if totally disturbing—Clint Smith, the Willits high school teacher who carried on a nearly year-long extramarital affair with his 15-year-old…
A curious invention hit the streets of SF yesterday: The San Francisco Panorama, a one-day only, 320-page, $5-on-the-street broadsheet, created by the folks at McSweeny's.…
The mainstream media is to “progressive” Mendocino County what liberal bias is to Fox News—a favorite punching bag, an omnipresent boogie man who manipulates, digests…
It's one of the career changes some of Mendo's unemployed fishermen are pondering these days, according to a story about California's non-existent commercial salmon industry--and what local fishermen are up to--in the LA Times today.
There's an excellent new gallery in town with an open house this Friday (December 4). The gallery, Odd Hours, is perfect for the kids--by which I…
I first heard Clarence Carter a couple weeks back, while at the Gee-dub, as that fine Fort Bragg drinking establishment is known.
Welcome to Flypaper--a blog of observations.
Here's what you can expect in the coming months: a mix of reflections on culture and politics—both local and elsewhere—and reporter's-notebook style pieces derived from larger projects I'm reporting for the newspaper.
You might call it an institution — a haven of freedom and liberty in that bourgeois airy-fairyland known as Mendocino Village. Or maybe you call…