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Farinelli On The Great White Way

Farinelli was perhaps the biggest and brightest star of his or any other time, and so it’s only right that at the ripe old age…

Opaque Administration

Some of you may have used your internet search engine to look for the site called “Transparent California,” where you can find out what the…

Confessions of a Square and a Zombie

For much of my life, I have been a square though I am sure that many people, including myself, have been fooled by the company…

An Encounter

My female companion at the water mentioned it first. The closeness. But I had also seen the girl and a man, almost certainly her father,…

Mendo Court Predictions For The Coming Year

At the Office of the Public Defender Mary LeClair will become the new Public Defender. Anthony Adams will be the new Assistant Public Defender. Eric…

But It Was Suicide

The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Investigative Services Office reports that, save for one final ongoing review by two county homicide detectives, the final cause-of-death report for…

Helping The Homeless

If you were going to try to pin me down politically, and I wouldn't advise it, it might be necessary to compile something like one…

Trippet Gets Her Due on NBC

On New Year's Eve, NBC San Francisco will air a documentary that gives Albion activist Pebbles Trippet proper credit for advancing the movement to legalize marijuana. Peter…

Mendo Mail & Maritime History

Between the late 1880s and the early 1930s mail was delivered to my grandparents home here at the Macdonald ranch simply by addressing their name…

Comptche Outlaws & The Unwritten Rule

Every once in a while it’s important to remind people in Comptche that we are outlaws. And we have been that way for quite a…

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