FROM SATURDAY’S SACRAMENTO BEE, by Phillip Reese and Bill Lindelof: “A Mendocino County deputy district attorney shot and wounded another man on a downtown Sacramento…
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A WEEK OF TOTAL SCUMBAGGERY for Mendocino County included three dead infant cases, the most recent involving a guy who simply dropped his dead baby…
WE ARE SADDENED to learn of the death of Susan Shields, long-time editor and publisher of the Laytonville-based Mendocino County Observer. Mrs. Shields died on…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
MENTAL HEALTH ACTIVISTS are appalled that the County's recent privatization of mental health services, always problematical in Mendocino County, seems to have eliminated mental health…