On Tuesday, the Supervisors unanimously but very belatedly agreed to appoint Supervisors Maureen Mulheren and Madeline Cline to an ad hoc committee to explore how to adjust to the abandonment of the old downtown courthouse…
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My former mother-in-law was the matriarch of a far-flung Irish clan living mostly in Connecticut. One day when we were shooting the breeze the topic turned to child abuse. She told me about a lecherous…
Time goes slowly from age seven to twelve, and when a youngster’s time is being navigated through snowdrifts, howling winds and temperatures below zero, the calendar slows to a frozen crawl. Let’s call it “Winter…
Did you know there was a brickworks for Wendling/Navarro? In his book "The Good Old Days" Jeff Burroughs shared that in the early 1900s the sawmill boiler room needed bricks to line the walls around…
Everyone has probably had the fantasy of just picking up and leaving everything familiar behind. How great would it be to escape to somewhere new, get grounded and consider your options? Of course there are…
I did not know Jessica Mitford— who was dubbed “the Queen of the Muckrakers”– for long, but I knew her well. In the 1990s, shortly before my biography of Abbie Hoffman was published I decided…
A decade ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at last summoned the annually assembled Oscar orchestra into the Dolby Theatre to play for the annual awards ceremony in the auditorium where the…
Four candidates vying for the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors District 3 position — Eric Hart, Buffy Wright Bourassa, Clay Romero, and Russell Green — participated in an election forum Thursday, March 26, sponsored by…
"Detention Center" (replacing "prison") is hereby added to our two-words-for one list. To review… There's been a trend in the American language whereby two words are substituted for one. For example, ” Human Resources” has…