Vermont’s Senator Bernie Sanders spoke for months about his “historic” efforts to get a vote on a single-payer health care bill in the Senate. While we all knew the outcome was going to be a…
Posts published in December 2009
A young woman suggested I write something nice for the holidays.
I said I'd try.
The matsutakes are emerging along the ridges. If you know where they are you are finding them. If you don't, you probably won't. A person with deeper local roots than I have has been schooling…
In my younger days I had a habit that I thought was amusing but which I imagine most people found very annoying. It consisted of making up stories — okay, you could be uncharitable and…
If it's action you want, Hoyle's your cop.
He's an action guy, what you call a polarizing figure, a strong personality of the old school lawman type. Thirty-three years on the thin blue line.
The state’s nearly $120 million plan to build a new Mendocino County Courthouse is shaping up to be the single biggest investment ever in Ukiah’s downtown. It presents an opportunity to rectify one of the…
David Colfax's penchant for substance-free tirades is unsurpassed among Mendo Supes.
Last year we got a rescue cat that my son-in-law named Barako — hoping, I think, that the animal would clean up the right-wing rodent population around the place. I’m not very good with names…
AV 58, Pacific Union 42 Last Tuesday the Panthers basketball teams saw action in the Napa Valley where they played the Pacific Union Falcons in Angwin. The Panthers came on fast and strong with a…