THE FLYNN FIRE was declared fully extinguished late last Thursday. A small army of CalFire vehicles still packed the parking lot of the Boonville Fairgrounds early last Wednesday morning, but from everything we'd heard from…
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My brother, a successful Internet Technology person living in San Mateo, recently wrote, “I know the Bay Area is back because for about three years no one was going out to dinner and a concert,…
In Comptche there’s nothing like a wave of fire exploding across your neighbor’s fields headed for your home to instill a love for friends, CalFire, and your local volunteer fire department. At home alone, with…
The importance of music can only be truly gauged by its absence. A bride walking down the aisle in silence is an act that thunders more loudly than a hundred trumpets and timpani. Likewise, watching…
COUNTERPUNCH Presents the West Coast Memorial Celebrating the Life & Work of Our Friend, Alexander Cockburn. Saturday, October 20, 2012. 5-7pm, Citizen Space, 425 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA. The event will be emceed by…
THAT POTENTIAL TRAIN WRECK in the person of Rich White, the County’s recently hired Retirement Administrator who wants to hire a $110k per year (including benefits) full-time “financial officer” to do much of what White…
COAST HOSPITAL TO FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY, by Mark Scaramella PACHULSKI, Stang, Ziehl & Jones. Friedman & Springwater, LLP. Start getting used to hearing those, or similar, aegypian words fairly often in coming months whenever the…
THE FOLLOWING TWO stories should be read together. The first is from the New York Times, the second is based on a press release from the Ukiah Valley Medical Center: MENINGITIS OUTBREAK, NYT October 4th…
THE FLYNN FIRE was declared “95% contained” as of Thursday morning, CalFire has announced. The agency also amended the size of the blaze to 195 acres over yesterday's announced 200 acres. The fire began Monday…