NEWS FROM UKRAINE tends to be either over-covered or under-covered. The over-covered news may be true but is usually selective and I find it impossible to tell if some skirmish is typical or atypical of…
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DEPT of unintentional irony: Based on all the different sources, the latest best estimates of homelessness in San Francisco range from 8,000 to more than 19,000. “We all desperately need to have a much better…
The David V. Neily cold case. Lisa Neily writes: My father’s remains were found off Branscomb Road, May 7, 2020. They were identified in Oct 2021. Which already put us behind to file a wrongful…
NOTE TO RED BEARD: Dude! Or Bro! Whichever, and what’s the diff exactly? The letter you sent us is illegible. Please try again. Preferably print. THE DISGUSTING war on Ukraine goes on and on, and…
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE IN MENDO — Carmel Angelo, Tom Allman, and Dave Eyster. The three heavyweights of Mendocino County government in recent times gathered Saturday night in front of 125 people who turned out to…
ACCORDING to the Curry Coastal Pilot out of Brookings, Oregon, Gary Milliman has been elected vice president of the Oregon Municipal Judges Association. THE POINT of this soporific info of no conceivable interest to anyone…
JOHN MCCOWEN: The Supervisors are supposed to make decisions in public based on information that is in the public record, in order that the public is able to understand why the Supervisors are making decisions…
HIGHMINDED dude that I am, I don't remember ever watching the Academy Awards, but I couldn't miss all the excited media chatter last week about an actor named Will Smith slapping Awards host, comedian Chris…