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Posts published in August 2011

Flow

“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting what you are doing. This is the ultimate.” — Zhuangzi…

A Memoir: The Fortunate Son, Part 17

My attorney finally showed up and filled me in on what was going on. The feds had convened a grand jury to hammer my old…

The Struggle For Rattlesnake Island

The oldest human remains so far discovered in California belong to the Elem Pomo Nation who have lived on the eastern and southern shores of…

Horoscopes

Laura Hamburg’s application for her Boonville pot dispensary has shot her father in his Supervisorial foot; it has removed the Pot Brigade's most pot-friendly Supervisor from the rule drafting process.

Community Services District: No Pot Store Next Door

CSD Director Kirk Wilder was adamantly opposed to the dispensary idea, forthrightly describing medical marijuana as “a bunch of crap” — meaning that he thinks most “medical” marijuana smokers have no real medical condition that pot will help.

Inviting Trouble

The union rally on the Courthouse lawn last Thursday nearly turned into a brawl. The Service Employees International Union Local 1021, representing Ukiah Courthouse employees,…

Valley People

LILA KNIGHT has died. Lila, the last of the Anderson Valley Pomos, was the wife of the late Art Knight. The Knights lived for many…

Off The Record

This Week: A murder in Rockport; SEIU vs. The County, Cont'd; See ya', Congressman Corktop; and much more

Random Bits & the First Day of School

I know, I know. I am not the only mother to ever send her kid to school. But it's my first time sending mine to…

Jarheads In The Bike Lane

My birthday showed its face in June, and thanks to the recent auto repossession and my wife’s work sched­ule, it would be an auto-free, solitary…

El Classico De Michoacan

Michoacan is the mostly rural Mexican State from which the vast majority of Hispanic people in this Valley originally hail from. They tell me that…

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