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.
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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…
THE CASPAR INN will close at the end of this month. The legendary music venue with rooms for rent upstairs was for years the go-to Mendocino Coast nightspot, attracting many big name entertainers. ======================================================== RICHARD…
HERE’S A SUMMARY of Mendocino County CEO Carmel Angelo’s appearance at the Anderson Valley Unity Club meeting Thursday afternoon, February 7, 2013. • Opening remarks: By background, Ms. Angelo is a registered nurse, and a…
THE CITY OF UKIAH received a report Wednesday night on General Fund revenues and expenditures for fiscal years 2011/12 and 2012/13 and projections for general fund expenditures for the next several years into the future.…
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS is holding a “special meeting” today (Tuesday) with two agenda items. The first is to declare the flooding from a broken pipe at the Dora Street Public/Mental Health building (the old…
WE DISAGREE Editor: Your response to my letter (January 16, 2013) re: Aaron Bassler's mental health: 1. “…it's clear to us that much of his behavior seemed inspired by methamphetamine.” 2..”....his jailers noted zero indication…