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Anarchist Chess

It's Paul Bunyan Days here in Fort Bragg. After a little grocery shopping for tomorrow's family brunch, we walked down town. The Classic Car Show was small but the little man enjoyed it, preferring the…

Memo Of The Week

August 16, 2011 To: Mr. Marc [sic] Scaramella Re: Citizens Advisory Committee on Redistricting Dear Mr. Scaramella: On behalf of the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, please accept our sincere appreciation for your efforts serving…

The Real Obama

The White House that shook in last Tuesday’s earth­quake has been home to its present incumbent for 32 months. Obama wasn’t around to watch the furniture shake. He’s up on Martha’s Vineyard for the third…

Take Me Back To Tulsa

My after action report on the annual Rockabilly in the Redwoods Festival is tardy this year since I was taken back to Tulsa right after the festival to help my frantic kid sister, Eunice, deal…

Collapse Scenarios

"Our business gets better as the economy gets worse.” — Kent Moyer, founder & CEO of World Protection Group Inc. The business referred to in the opening quote is officially known as Executive Protection, and…

Spy Rock Memories, Part 7, Continued

Before driving back to the city, the girl I had befriended in the city and I took a walk up to a stately rock formation that was straight out of one of those misty mountain…

HumCo Preps For Prisoner Influx

The county is preparing to absorb incarceration of some of the felons now sent to state prisons and will launch programs that replace jail sentences for lower-level offenders. Approaches to realignment — the term that…

Covelo Gravel Project Withdrawn

I spent last week compiling, organizing, and confirming the horde of information regarding the advent of the Grist Creek Aggregates proposed gravel mine in Covelo to write the (belated) next article in what was to…

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