The Jazz Age novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald, once said famously that “There are no second acts in American lives.” Scott changed his mind, at least for New York City. In the midst of the Depression,…
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“Why it's positively Vesuvian out there!” exclaimed a nicely dressed forty-ish woman waiting at the counter of Café Glad in Boonville for the decaf latte she'd just ordered. “Where on earth is all this smoke…
The death of Walter Mondale brings back strong memories of when many other Mendocino County residents and I had a firsthand face-to-face meeting with the late Vice-president up at the Ridgewood Ranch outside of Willits.…
It’s now apparent that the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors have their necks fully bowed and have hung closed signs on their minds over the relocation of the Veteran Services Office (VSO). At Tuesday’s (Jan.…
There are four candidates for Mendocino’s First District Supervisor seat being vacated by retiring Supervisor and former UC Ag Extension wine advisor Glenn McGourty: Madeline Cline, Adam Gaska, Carrie Shattuck, and Trevor Mockel. Ms. Cline…
The most misused word in the English language is “we.” “We” have military bases in more than 100 foreign countries. The base in Jordan where last week three US troops were killed and more than…
The days are numbered for the historic Palace Hotel, especially if a pending $6.6 million taxpayer funded financing scheme of a local tribe and its planned partners wins state approval. A grant award is likely…
Finally, something shifts. The ruling by the International Court of Justice is said by public international lawyers to be a game changer. For starters, the vocabulary has been reset. Out with the references to “self-defense,”…
Moving the file cabinets. Don’t have time to decide which Manila folders are worth keeping so I’m bringing them all. There’s a whole drawer devoted to Tod H. Mikuriya, MD, the Berkeley-based psychiatrist who helped…