Pitchers and catchers report to spring training this week. There is hope! Baseball is on its way. I would rather watch the Minnesota Twins, but they train across the continent in Florida. Here in Tucson,…
Posts published in “Essays”
Yesterday I came in from harvesting a storm-felled tan oak, my Neolithic mind thinking ahead to winter warmth from these new-cut logs a year hence, and I found in my email a missive from someone…
Delta advocates fear that campaign contributions from Stewart Resnick and other big water interests could heavily influence Jerry Brown, the potential winner of the gubernatorial race in the November election, and his positions on the construction of more dams and the November $11.1 billion water bond. They also fear Resnick could pressure Brown to support legislative and administrative attacks on federal plans protecting Delta smelt and Central Valley salmon.
I don't follow the calendar very well, and since there aren't any Lutheran churches in Anderson Valley I wasn't aware that last Tuesday was actually Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras. All the same, as the…
Below are links to the documents I used for this week's story on the strange case of Robert Forest, who's suing former Fort Bragg police Lt. (and current Merced commander) Floyd Higdon in federal court…
Here's a copy of the e-mail (courtesy of Washington City Paper) that got Chris Dovi, a Style Weekly reporter, fired after the e-mail was accidentally sent to the PR guy for a blind motivational speaker named…
That was quick. It seems only yesterday — in fact it was only yesterday — that we had Barack the Populist flailing away at the banks. He didn’t run for office only to end up…
I don’t know Fort Bragg carpenter Todd Rowan, but I admire him. In a few short remarks quoted Sunday in the San Francisco Chronicle, Rowan got to the core of the creepy case involving Aaron…