A CLOSE OBSERVER of municipal lawsuits against the state's Department of Finance summarizes them this way: “We started this project and if you don't let…
Posts published in “Day: December 27, 2012”
As 2012 draws to a close it is a good time to give an update on the school construction projects and to answer a few…
PUNISHING D-TANK Editor, Punish one, Punish all. I am one of the many inmates in Mendocino County Jail in Ukiah who have prison terms in…
Then came the letdown, a huge letdown, a shocking letdown, as the 49ers lost to the Seattle Seahawks in a near blowout 42-13.
Dave Smith’s invaluable Ukiah Blog Live pointed me to a sobering presentation by Guy MacPherson on YouTube entitled Twin Sides of the Fossil Fuel Coin. MacPherson is a prominent conservation biologist who argues clearly and concisely that the only hope for the survival of humans beyond another couple of decades is the complete collapse of our global industrial society right now, today, and even that probably won’t be soon enough to stave off fast-approaching human extinction and the extinction of virtually all living things due to increasingly rapid global warming.
It’s Boxing Day, the day for servants and the working class to receive presents from their employers. That centuries-old tradition sounds a lot like the…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. So how was your Christmas? Did the new sweater fit? Did it…
An armchair psychologist might say it could only be a December baby born in the Great Depression who could have devised a song so devastatingly…
THE ANNUAL RANCHERIA RESCUE, 2012. Usually it happens this way: A kayaker, or a group of them, underestimates the time it will take to schwoosh…
Biggest Boondoggle, Ongoing — The Willits Bypass has been allocated hundreds of millions of public dollars but will not only be built with no on…
Back on December 10th, the Mendocino Supervisors invited Mendocino Redwoods executives to discuss their Habitat Conservation Plan. The plan covers 80 years and would bind…