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Mendocino County Today: October 17, 2013

FOLLOW-UP! TYPHOON WIPHA SLASHED JAPAN ON WEDNESDAY Wipha slashed Japan with fear over further damage in crippled nuclear plant TOKYO, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) — Japan was lashed by a powerful typhoon Wednesday which claimed the…

Letters To The Editor

AFFORDABLE? To the Editor: We currently have Anthem Blue Cross with a plan called “clear protection plus 3300” they sent me a package of information on Monday and I actually read it. Now that the…

The Machine Stops

E.M. Forster, best known for his novels Room With A View, Passage To India and Howard’s End, published a great short story in 1909 entitled The Machine Stops, an extremely prescient imagining of a future we may soon inhabit. Forty years before the advent of television, Forster foresaw computers and the worldwide internet, the demolition of the global environment, and the total collapse of technological society.

Mendocino County Today: October 16, 2013

STRONG TYPHOON HEADING FOR JAPAN AND FUKUSHIMA NUKE SITE News-Asia/Agence France-Presse in Tokyo — A typhoon described as the “strongest in 10 years” was closing in on Japan on Tuesday, on a path that will…

I Have Always Been Afraid Of Men

When I was a child, I wrote “I hate Daddy” on the flowered yellow wallpaper above my bed in my room in Baltimore. When my friends asked why and how I'd gotten away with this,…

Valley People

A PAIR of smash and grab car break-ins Sunday evening, one in central Boonville in front of the Hotel, one on Anderson Valley Way at the apartments. Deputy Walker said the two robberies occurred “sometime…

River Views

For the past couple of months this column has been following a young man from the Mendocino Coast named William and his encounters with Mendocino County’s mental health system. William suffers from schizoaffective disorder and…

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