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Posts published in September 2012

Letters To The Editor

Dear Editor, In a letter in the September 5th AVA, I reported that the California assembly had passed by a unanimous 80-0 vote, HR 35,…

Vegetable Porn & Radical Politics

The second annual National Heirloom Exhibition last week in Santa Rosa was much expanded from the inaugural event the prior year. In 2011 organizers managed…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And I can think of no better place to do that than…

Panther Soccer 2012

Still reeling from events of the previous week which had seen three key players removed from the roster as a result of continuing bad grades…

More Offshore ‘Seismic Testing’

At last Friday's Coastal Commission meeting in Caspar, California, Deputy Director Alison Dettmer delivered a bombshell. She announced that seismic testing plans for the controversial…

River Views

Fifteen years ago a South African music enthusiast established aweb site that he called “The Great Rodriguez Hunt.” Rodriquez was an obscure singer/songwriter from the…

Moving Experiences

Marcia and I are moving from this house we’ve rented for the past seven years into a house (five miles away) we just bought. Miracle…

Fish, Game & Halibut

When the salmon bite turns off, local anglers have traditionally turned to halibut and striped bass fishing to keep their rods bent. The 2008 and…

Mendocino County Today: September 20, 2012

TWO DEATHS of prominent citizens have cast a pall over the Anderson Valley. Bruce Longstreet passed away early Tuesday morning at his home in Philo,…

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