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Bird’s Eye View (Feb 11, 2015)

So we are already at Valentine’s Day and yet the year seems as if it began yesterday. In fact, some folks are still wishing me a Happy New Year! Valentine’s is of course a day to express love and affection, and we all need some of that, particularly curmudgeonly Turkey Vultures like myself, so I am expecting lots of hugs over the next few days.

A Question of Believability

For pure verve there’s nothing quite like calling a well-known cop a liar, especially a cop you know, a cop you've worked with when you were a prosecutor, a cop you often see in the…

Off the Record (Feb 11, 2015)

WILLITS AND UKIAH emerged mostly unscathed from the big winds and rains of last weekend, suffering no power outages inside their city limits. Ukiah, incidentally, is civic proof that municipalities can elude the power-eating monopoly…

Fiction Writers’ Workshop

Beginning March 2, the Cloverdale Arts Alliance is pleased to present a 10-week evening fiction writing workshop. The instructor for this workshop is Roy Parvin, the award-winning author of two books of fiction, The Loneliest…

The Wellness Center, Pros & Cons

The approval of a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) for the purchase of the Old Coast Hotel as a centralized mental health services site as well as a location for five transitional housing units wasn't…

Bird’s Eye View (Feb 4, 2015)

It appears that Mitt Romney heeded my advice and backed out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination. I just do what I can (?).

Untasty Pudding

If you attend enough Council, Board, or Committee meetings and witness enough members of the public going off the deep end of this issue or that, then you might just develop an ounce of compassionate…

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