During the discussion of the County’s annual budget all the way back in 1994 the then-Board of Supervisors unanimously declared that the Sheriff’s “overtime budget appears to be out of kilter.” Then-Sheriff Jim Tuso had…
Posts published in “Essays”
It's already almost Thanksgiving. How does this happen? It's raining in Fort Bragg. Wait, no- it's sunny. The Day of the Dead was a great memorial. The local public access station here in Fort Bragg…
When last we visited the $3,087 in untraveled travel reimbursements that Supervisor Kendall Smith lifted from the taxpayers of Mendocino County, The Sisterhood had already gone deep to confuse, delay, defend, and perpetually punt Smith's…
Americans keep odd things up on the mantelpiece, or in the fridge: Dad’s ashes in a biscuit tin or, in Barbara Bush’s case, as her eldest son has just disclosed on national tv, the foetus…
A few weeks ago Bruce Anderson wrote “A Breathless Look Back at the San Francisco Giants” — a mini-history from when they arrived at Babylon by the Bay to 2010 World Series big dogs. You…
Beep. You’ve reached the office of the President of the United States. The President is out of the office or otherwise occupied and cannot accept you call at this time, but at the beep please…
There we were, the guy “Fly” and I literally dangling on a limb of this outstretched madrone trunk, gripping another branch for dear life with the small pack of dogs raising a ruckus at the…
Did you ever wonder what that smart meter that your gas and electric company wants to install on your house is going to cost? Maybe you are off the grid with your own solar panels…