Anne and I and our land partner, Joel Beak, had scraped and hustled to put together the down payment on 210 acres of Surprise Valley Ranch for which we paid $242 an acre. Now we…
Posts published in “Essays”
Because I was living in both NorCal and NorCaro, and because I wasn’t sure where I was registered to vote, and because I wanted to be careful not to accidentally cast a presidential ballot for…
The country library is demanding either a lot of money or a huge amount of money and is in clear and present danger of getting it. With knuckleheads running things, and despite the county already…
On behalf of what’s left of my once-proud profession, I offer my heartfelt apology to the millions of American victims of a hoax that falsely now underpins the rolling destruction of the world as we…
A family’s experience navigating crisis response from 2020 to 2026 Serious mental illness is a medical illness. It is not a moral failure. It is not bad parenting. It is not a character flaw. Serious…
Readers with exceptional memories will recall last week’s analysis of the county’s financial state, but the more sensitive might rather forget. The county, from timber to grapes and from pears to marijuana, does not have…
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…
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…