MICHAEL TOMS of New Dimensions Radio has died from diabetes at age 72. Toms cashed in on the national narcissism known as the “consciousness movement,” interviewing “spiritual” people, many of them celebrities, who talked about…
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THURSDAY MORNING'S PRESS DEMOCRAT contained a minor masterpiece of grammatical Stalinism followed by Nice Person Stalinism, Mendo style. Discussing the hiring of former Willits City Manager Paul Cayler to be Cloverdale's (interim) manager, Cloverdale's mayor,…
ONLINE DATING. By Jeff Costello Am I admitting this? Yes, I guess so. I've been married (using the term loosely) twice, have four grown kids and four grandchildren. Not a particularly lonely guy and certainly…
The first bad sign is Tuesday before the game. Speaking before a tangle of sweaty flesh and Japanese electronics plastered with the corporate logos of “news outlets” 49er receiver Randy Moss says: “Now that I'm…
When I lived in Seattle in 1977, I played basketball almost every day in a gym at Seattle University, the alma mater of the great Lakers star Elgin Baylor who took the Seattle Chieftains (now the Redhawks) all the way to the NCAA championship game in 1958 before turning pro that same year. As a resident of Seattle, I was invited to use the gym and swimming pool of that esteemed university for a small annual fee, which made me feel like the luckiest guy in the world.
I NEVER THOUGHT I'd be saying that the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors is savvier and more on-task than the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, not that I'd ever held either in anything like high…
THE PERILS OF BLIND OBEDIENCE. Just in from the Sheriff: “On February 08, 2013 around 11:45am, Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office K-9 ‘Argus’ died as a result of injuries sustained in a fall from a height…
THE KEEGAN MURDER CASE remains on hold. How long will it remain on hold? If we weren't talking about a murder it would be laughable (or suspicious) that the case would be stuck in what…