THE GOOD NEWS. Lots of fish in local streams, steelhead and salmon. Jerry Philbrick said Monday that he hadn’t seen “this many salmon in many, many years.” BILL MANNIX, the late Homer Mannix’s brother, can…
Posts published in January 2002
THE JURIST MATTER rightly continues to preoccupy the attentions of many people on the South Coast. Jurist and his allies continue to claim that he’s the victim of a “witch hunt,” that the nearly two…
Although the North Coast gets more rain than the state average, it is misleading and troubling to make much of this. Mendocino County long ago sold much of its water birthright for a pittance; thus…
Throwing the book at people is nothing new, but in our post 9/11 world the screws are tightening. Take San Francisco, whose District Attorney is Terence “Kayo” Hallinan, regarded by many as a progressive fellow.…
Max Crawford’s latest novel is called “Wamba.” According to the flier announcing it: “After years away, Roy Alan Richardson has come home to western Texas to grapple with the demons that haunt him. Most of…
Arthur Firstenberg moved from New York City to Mendocino, a quaint Victorian village on California's rugged Northern Coast, to escape the radio frequencies he believes were making him sick. The 51-year-old says he is “electrically…
Most days, I wake with a purpose. There is always something to do and I generally go about it with a measure of good cheer. There is an African proverb that states, “ One bracelet…