I met up with Jose Luis in Boonville but because he had some watering of vines to do at his job with V. Sattui Winery, a large company based in Napa. We headed for the…
Posts published in September 2011
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Just the one Public Service Announcement this week. The Mendocino County Fair and Apple Show is here! I’m sure I don’t have…
A week of unseasonably cool weather reminiscent of summer days on the Mendo coast blasted through southern Indiana at twenty miles an hour out of the north, with Canada geese in their V-formations. The prevailing…
Last week, over 50,000 people gathered in a Nevada high desert for a big carnival called Burning Man. “Why aren't you at Burning Man right now?” is a common question asked of those who are…
The leaders of the biggest, baddest and toughest union anywhere around have told its workers to go ahead, take a walkout. Walk away from your desks and offices and trucks and yards for half a…
Candidate for the newly created 2nd US Congressional District seat Norman Solomon visited the Mendocino coast last Thursday, appearing at the Caspar Community Center for an evening discussion with about fifty locals, half of whom…
One of my Anthropology professors was Nigerian, his people Yoruba. An exceptional student as a child, he was sent to school in England and eventually got his PhD from a prestigious American university.
Dozens filled a Ukiah conference room to discuss if--and how--to regulate cannabis dispensaries.