Press "Enter" to skip to content

Posts published in “Day: April 26, 2012

Mendocino County Today: April 27, 2012

BACK ON, APRIL 10th, Ralph Nader announced his support for the presidential candidacy of Rocky Anderson, former Democrat, former mayor of Salt Lake City, and…

Mendocino County Today: April 26, 2012

THE GERMAN SHEPHERD found abandoned and half-dead in Point Arena’s now closed Sea Shell Inn, is doing quite well at the County’s Animal Shelter in…

Last Waltz Out-Takes

In 1976 The Band staged a farewell-to-the-road concert, “The Last Waltz,” at Winterland in San Francisco. Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko and…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And what better start than to mention the excellent event that I…

Death Of Hippie

Hippie met its ugly death In Buena Vista Park; Buried with the smack and meth With candles in the dark; Vietnam the only trip That…

In Defense of Nursing Homes: Too Much Welfare!

According to some in the business, Minnesota's nursing home system is in financial trouble in large part because people seem to think that no matter…

Hand-fishing For Swamp Monsters

Cypress boughs dangle over the still, mocha-muddy waters of an Oklahoma swamp as a gaggle of drawling Southern country boys walks waist deep through the…

HumCo Supes Back Pot-Related Power Cap

The enrollment of some indoor marijuana growers in low income energy assistance programs is being targeted by a state bill and county supervisors are supporting…

Brautigan’s Rise & Fall

Richard Brautigan once observed that “It’s really something to have fame put its feathery crowbar under your rock and then upward to the light to…

My Father

When my father died five years ago, my siblings and I did not hold a memorial service in his honor. We were each of us…

-