Meg Courtney appears to be rather poor at keeping a secret. In early August Ms. Courtney somehow got hold of information from a closed session…
Posts published in “Essays”
The Laytonville Water District regularly tests for nitrates in our water, and we have never tested positive for it. That’s because here in the Long…
Anderson Valley Fire Chief Andres Avila was resting on his back porch at his Yorkville home on a recent Sunday evening. It was a little…
When I think of Mendocino I think of twisting up the serpentine highway from Navarro-By-The-Sea towards Navarro Ridge Road, and careless souls tumbling over the perilous cliffs. I think of when Olie lived on the ridge, and how he returned from Alaska one summer to find his prized mare had kicked the kind lady caretaking his horses, breaking her jaw and arm.
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” That little gem comes to us from the fevered mind of gonzo journalism's most celebrated spurious…
It’s that time of year again: time for me to write about the baseball season now exiled to distant outfields as political and meteorological storms…
There’s a bill in the state Senate that if approved would impose for the first time in California a tax on public drinking water for…
If you’re tired of reading about cannabis, don’t expect relief anytime soon. Right now, we’re in the cannabis moment. The media here and around the…
If a team of tasteful, classy evaluators were to compile some sort of chart or graph or list of human entertainments, graded and categorized according…
I barely got to enjoy the rough dismissal of Fort Bragg city manager Linda Ruffing from her three grand a week job when I learned…
Organists have long been present at, indeed participants in, great political events: the 759 Byzantine delegation from Constantinople to the French court of Pippin the…