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The Glory Days

When I read that the New York Times was disbanding its sport department, I gulped. One more nail in the coffin of conventional news media.…

Crime & No Punishment

Recently a 44-year-old Laytonville man with a history of multiple police “contacts” was busted down in Brooktrails on several charges. Here’s the story: He’s someone…

Is Mendo Imploding?

Watching the Board of Supervisors’ blasé attitude toward the County’s core function of property tax collection it’s hard to escape the sense that Mendo is…

Coast Hospital District Fund Transfers

On February 23rd, with two members absent, the Mendocino Coast Health Care District (MCHCD) Board of Directors heard an emergency agenda item. The bottom line…

Mendo Winemaker Paul Dolan

A Mover and a Shaker in Mendocino County Wines Lived a Life of Deep Roots and Forward-Thinking, Legendary North Coast vintner Paul Dolan died at…

County Notes: Behind The Curve

A large and uncharacteristically loud contingent of County employees showed up at the Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, June 20 to demand some kind of pay…

A Jubilant Juneteenth In San Francisco, 2023

“It’s Juneteenth everybody,” Kevin Dublin, an African American poet, said to the downtown poetry enthusiasts at the upscale Kimpton Alton Hotel in San Francisco near…

25 Years of Change in Anderson Valley

The people, the businesses and the activities in the Anderson Valley have changed substantially over the past 25 years. In 1998 more people who were…

The Radioactive Rose Garden

My young friend Katharine is studying to be a doctor. When I told her that a number of public places in the San Francisco Bay…

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