This Week: The Giants win the Series, Mendo's home invasion season kicks off, McCarthyite Michele (Bachmann) comes to Ukiah and much more
Posts published in November 2010
The sun rises this week on a new American landscape, the same way it rose on a new American landscape almost exactly two years ago. That was the dawn of Obama-time. Millions of Americans had…
Public Defender Linda Thompson's win-loss record is worse than the '62 Mets.
Last Tuesday, with the winter rains early and strong, the Board of Supervisors discussed water. They've laid off Roland Sanford, County water guy. You might say this meeting was Sanford's Swan Song, wrapping up where…
OF ALL the beautiful spectacles available to us blessed residents of the spectacular Anderson Valley, none surpass the sudden gold explosion of the Fall poplars against the deep dark of the old redwoods at the…
It was awesome. Last week we decorated Sugar Skulls at the Caspar Community Center. This week there were alters in many of the shops around town and a large display at City Hall. The little…
A NEIGHBORHOOD ASPHALT PLANT Editor, Coming to a Location Near You: an Asphalt Plant. Citizens of Mendocino County should be aware that the County Board of Supervisors is contemplating a zoning change that would allow…
In 1970 editor Dwight Macdonald in Tales of Hoffman referred to the 1969 trial of the Chicago Eight as "the most significant kulturekampf of our time." The Tales book was essentially a copy of the…
A steel bench on an old prison bus, 400 miles of bone jarring in leg irons and chains. A couple of mystery meat sandwiches that had to go down with spit around an inescapable bouquet…