The morning oozed in gray and wet. The monsoon sky at high tide. Clouds so wet, so low that you can feel them cold on your neck. Push off your cover. A banana leaf. Banana…
Posts published in “Essays”
More than 50 denizens of the area around the Albion River crowded into the Albion School during the evening of April 11th to discuss the 586-acre timber harvest plan Mendocino Redwood Company has proposed for…
Act one, scene one of a three-act tragicomedy featuring the Treasury Department, US industries reliant on hemp, and the American Medical Association. A radio is playing “Nice work if you can get it” as the…
Earlier this afternoon, the North Coast Railroad voted 8-1 to rescind its earlier certification of an environmental impact report governing operations on the southern end of its line. (Want background? See yesterday’s LostCoastOutpost.com post.) LoCO…
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat. “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.…
I heard about it from a friend who, heard it from a friend who... no that's a song. This is a story about what happened earlier today. My friend told me she was hitting…
My uncle, the late 5th District Supervisor Joe Scaramella, was an avid reader all his life. He described the county’s media during his tour in office in the 1950s and 60s as “mostly duplicative and…