THE SUPERVISORS have shunted Laura's Law off to committee, where it is likely to die a silent death. As some of you will recall, Fort…
Posts published in “Day: July 11, 2012”
GRAND JURY FAILS AGAIN To The Editor: Another Toothless Grand Jury Report. The Mendocino Grand Jury completed their report on the Ukiah City RDA (Redevelopment…
I met with Jim a couple of weeks ago at the property he owns just south of Philo on Highway 128. He lives in a…
California Governor Jerry Brown recently moved to restrict the use of some chemicals used as flame retardants, due to their impacts on human health. The…
On the Fourth of July the branches of the chokecherry trees in the yard bent nearly to the ground, heavy with fruit. The next morning…
“Things filled men with fear: the more things they had, the more they had to fear. Things had a way of riveting themselves on to…
If the Democrats in Congress were all drinking water from the same faucet, there might be a clue to their chronic fear of the craven…
I recently wrote about the cork trees of the Iberian Peninsula, those great, handsome figures so emblematic of the interior plains of Portugal and Spain.…
As my hometown of Fertile, Minnesota celebrated its 125th anniversary last weekend, I found myself in a goofy outfit out in the cemetery playing the…
Step aboard the wayback machine for another trip to Anderson Valley of my childhood in the late 1950s and 1960s — and in this case,…
My brother lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, so I'm visiting in the south, always creepy and exciting together -- the Confederacy, the other country inside the…