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Posts published in May 2012

Mendocino County Today: June 1, 2012

ON A VOTE 74-0 Assembly vote Wednesday, Assemblyman Huffman's bill to create new funding sources for state parks now moves to the State Senate. It…

Mendocino County Today: May 31, 2012

THE LOCAL ANGLE: A Contra Costa County prosecutor who had rape charges against him dismissed last year has sued the state, the county (of Contra…

Mendocino County Today: May 29, 2012

OCCUPY MENDOCINO has been denied permission to hold meetings at the spacious Fort Bragg Senior Center. Which is odd because most of Coast's Occupiers are…

Back To 1980

Let me whisk you to 1980 on one of Obama’s miracle drones. In the right-center we had incumbent President Jimmy Carter, derided as a man…

Letters To The Editor

NOT JUST WOMEN Editor, Mendocino Coast Clinics sent an article to the Fort Bragg Advocate-News about celebrating National Women's Health Week. “It's Your Time” is…

20 Minutes From Disneyland

Dear Editor and readers, Thanks again so much for the support and subscription all this time I've been down. It's made this state tour almost…

Children

“I would suspect that the hardest thing for you to accept is your own beauty. Your own worth. Your own dignity. Your own royal pedigree.…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. It was good to see many of you at the Lions Club…

Farm To Farm

Dry, scorching days have sent watermelon vines running, sweet corn stalks shooting. I've been irrigating broccoli, sugar snap peas, and carrots overnight, the first harvests…

A Hole In California

I used to think there wasn’t much a hole in the ground could do. The hole could get bigger, or it could get smaller. And…

River Views

Your average Mendocino County shopper probably wouldn’t think twice about purchasing naturally flavored incense. The key words are “naturally flavored.” The natural flavor in some incense is castoreum, made from the secretions of the sacs between the anus and the external genitals of beavers.

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