Of all the events that unfolded in the first half of the 1970s, none has haunted me more than the blast in an apartment building in Manhattan that claimed the lives of three members of…
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Mendocino County’s financial situation is not real good. You may already know this. Everyone does, even the supervisors. Economic convulsions have rocked every industry and business. On one hand the problems are real and dangerous;…
When I was a sophomore, attending Montclair High in New Jersey, my father, who was a labor negotiator for the United Auto Workers (UAW)/AFL-CIO, decided he wanted to travel and put in his application with…
The Master of a deep-water cargo ship on the Mendocino Coast during the late 1800s was generally a hard-fisted man who ruled his domain with an iron hand. He and his mates had to be,…
It’s cold, dark, rainy and miserable. It’s Monday, February 16 in Ukiah. I’m stopped at South State and Gobbi Streets peering through heavy drops and slashing wipers and off to my right, hunched under an…
I had the nostalgic pleasure of watching this fine concert film on the big screen at Coast Cinema recently. It was the second time I’d seen it at this theater, the last time a Mendo…
We visit Ukiah’s city park early every morning to walk around with some other people who do the same thing. Exercise, I suppose. Some people bring a dog, and the people who don’t have a…
I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed visiting a museum, but it probably was when I was young and pretentious. I thought if people heard I’d spent the weekend stalking moldy old antique stuff…
You really have to have a reason to be driving north of Covelo towards Humboldt County. In our case we did, as there is an interesting rockhounding site to investigate. The oak woodlands were beautiful…