I suppose many who think about the prospect of economic collapse imagine something like a Death Star implosion that simply obliterates the normal doings of…
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Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) has survived a recount of its narrow victory margin (2/3 vote requirement) for a parcel tax. The revenue from that…
Ever heard of a wine block or a grape brick? While working on the history of Mendocino County I’m writing I was trying to establish…
I arrive at the little nursing home to visit Berna. In the foyer is a TV. Three old women, two in wheelchairs and one propped…
Standing on stage in front of thousands of people can be a kind of out-of-body experience, especially if one is essentially shy in public. But…
2008: I'm driving a stolen car. Not technically stolen, but it feels stolen. My guilty conscience clatters along everywhere I go in the car, like…
Public anger over judge and jury decisions is as old as the creation of the three branches of American government. Fortunately we haven’t yet reached…
An Albion area resident has paid a $2,900 deposit to the Mendocino County Clerk's Office to start a recount on Measure C, the $144 per…
Fourth of July. The very words sizzle like a hot dog on a griddle, and as long as you’re up, I’ll have one, easy on…
Echos and murmurs of the deliberations of government come down to us in bits and pieces. We trust our elected representatives to guard our interests…
When Mendocino County Sheriff Jeremiah “Doc” Standley arrested twenty-two year old Joseph McKay at the Burns Hotel of Santa Rosa in late November, 1891, it…