Your life story would not make a good book. So don't even try. — Fran Lebowitz The whole time I was growing up, I never met another kid whose name was Jake. Today I understand…
Posts published in May 2011
Americans were offered closure Wednesday to one of among the multifarious strands of our national dementias. It took the drab guise of the “long-form” birth certificate, signed and filed in Hawaii on August 8, 1961,…
COVELO OPEN PIT MINE Letter to the Editor On April 21, 2011 over fifty Round Valley residents made the trek down to Ukiah to appear at 9am to speak before the Planning Commission against the…
The royal razzmatazz over Will and Kate is temporarily over, which I hope gives the loving, handsome couple some breathing space before the Palace's formidably world-class PR machine claws them back into the voracious public…
All those years in Boonville I pined for the excitement of the April storms in these here Kentuckiana hills. It's an annual reenactment of the civil war, confederate flags flapping in the balmy breath from…
Following the success of their women's clothes business in Birmingham, England, Stephen and his girlfriend, Marie Morrissey, took their savings and left the UK in August 1983 and headed for an open-ended visit to the…
The way I saw the NFL draft coming down for the SF 49ers was drafting Blaine Gabbert out of Missouri at #7 spot in the first round because Coach Jim Harbaugh has said he was…
My maternal Great-Grandparents, Arthur and Elsie Allen lived at the top of the hill on the southeast point of Pinoleville Rancheria for many decades. I am told that the house was originally a one-room affair…
Though it may at first seem a stretch to compare the struggle to save the historic Ukiah Post Office with the current labor dispute between National Football League owners and the NFL players’ union, similarities abound.