Nothing is more basic to our democratic society than the principle of majority rule. But what if the eligible voters who fail to cast ballots were automatically recorded as voting “no”? Ridiculous as it sounds,…
Posts published in November 2009
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE Editor, Yikes another letter from G Krouse (Run mission impossible sound tract) I hope to make this short. Three items. Yes, I know there are some Americans very frustrated with unregistered aliens present,…
Mexico has a 10,000 ton monkey on its back and its name is Washington DC. While US drug enforcers gloat that 15-foot walls, high tech sensors, drones, blimps, spotter planes and rampant militarization have put…
The good news: Attorney Brandt Stickel has been removed as President of the Board of Directors of the Mendocino Art Center (subsequently resigning) and a new slate of officers have been elected. The new officers…
To the Editor: This is about inmates in Mendocino County Jail. There are sentenced inmates here who are doing county time who are not allowed to go to the sentenced side of the jail.…
When I met with Elwin Maxey for lunch at The Boonville Lodge a couple of weeks ago, his granddaughter and caregiver, Dee Gowan, accompanied him. Elwin is now 93 and he and Dee live together…
If Jonathan Swift traveled to the United States today, he would surely ditch the little guys, the big guys and the horses and just feature Gulliver being squashed flat by enormously fat people. I drive…