This Week: The cost of blather, the return of Craig McMillan, Mendo's insta-chlor press releases and much more...
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BLEEPS DEFENDING BLEEPS Dear Editor, The word niggardly, whether it’s an a or an e, or ending with dly, who gives a bleep? We knew what that guy was thinking when he used it to…
To whom it may concern, My name is Glenn Sunkett. I am an African American citizen and Oakland California resident who is being illegally detained, prejudiced, racially discriminated against, inhumanly traded, and a constant subject…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Well, they did it again! Yes folks, Gloria Ross, “The Bishop of Boonville,” and her team of volunteers put on a superb…
Three years ago an unusual volume was issued by Crown Books. It was signed by Cathie Black, president of Hearst Magazines, and titled “Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in…
Mendocino County deserves a more democratic approach and participatory budgeting that fosters local buy-in for the difficult choices ahead
VEGETABLES Editor, The new trend among the thinking minority in America is local produce. People are opting for small farmer’s markets, often in suburban parking lots, where the produce is fresh picked and organic. The…
There is a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco a few blocks from my parents’ house. The Garden is indistinguishable from dozens of other Chinese restaurants in Beijing-By-The-Bay: harsh fluorescent lights, black metal chairs that look like they were stolen from a VFW Hall in Fresno, a pair of grubby tanks in which lobsters and fish await the executioner’s pot. A place where rock cod and appetites come to die.
UNCONFIRMED reports say the Boonville Brewery is in escrow, with the sale valued somewhere between $7 and $10 million. The Boont brews were first concocted in downtown Boonville in the middle 1980s by Ken Allen…