Many Mendocino County residents have at least heard of Doc Standley, the fearless lawman of the last decades of the nineteenth century. Some may have…
Posts published in “Essays”
As a resident of the hoosegow (word nerd alert: from the Spanish juzgado, court), I've been doing a lot of things I normally wouldn't for…
Music may be the food love, as Shakespeare put it at the opening of Twelfth Night, but he could also have observed that music feeds…
Do you shudder at the sight of low-life trailer-trash crankheads driving around in their beat-up Camaros? Do you nod solemnly when one of the big…
I asked Bruce Anderson the following random questions about his run for the KZYX Board of Directors
Jeremiah “Doc” Standley arrived in California at the age of eight in 1853. He walked and rode with his family in a small wagon train…
Following up on last week’s column regarding the state Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) February dismal snowpack reading of a paltry 25 percent of the…
I'm proud to say that I'm the one who gave Crystal Billy his nickname. Before I came along, he was just a Bill with a…
In ancient Greece trumpet playing was an Olympic event. Herodorus of Megas had the winnings lips and lung power: beginning in 396 BCE, he won…
The forced retirement of Linda Ruffing, the long time Fort Bragg City Manager, becomes, at long last a reality at Monday night’s City Council meeting.…
I am at heart a homebody, and never more content than when lolling around the domicile with a cool and refreshing tipple in the company…