The watermelon seeds finally showed up on Thursday, after a month of waiting and harassing the people in the office at United Genetics, or whatever the company name is. Evidently they'd never done business with…
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It was late Thursday afternoon in Ukiah and the Rooster’s ass is double dragging. Only one thing left to go, a couple Mexican flags for the house he can use on May Day and Cinco…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. When it rains, it pours. And I’m not talking about the weather. No, I’m referring to another very popular topic of debate around…
On the way down to a Twins game a couple of weeks ago, I stopped at a rest area along US Highway 10 just east of Detroit Lakes. Tucked on a hillside in lake country,…
I am amazed that I have never even been in an Oldsmobile. Cadillacs, Gremlins, Jaguars, GMCs — I even drove a Ferrari once — but not a nanosecond in an Oldsmobile. This is to acknowledge…
Jazz is often held to be the most direct form of personal expression: the taciturn cool of Miles (or do I mean cruelty?); the flighty genius of Bird; the stratospheric humor of Dizzy; the volatile…
In response to worries among the cannabis community about how legalization would affect the pocketbooks of growers and the region at large, the Mendocino Medical Marijuana Advisory Board (MMMAB) convened a forum and workshop in…
Never has there been a greater champion of US workers than former Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, who died on April 24 at 98. Certainly in more than a half-century of covering labor, I’ve never…