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…
Posts published in December 2012
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…
THE NEW COUNTY COURTHOUSE is proceeding whether the rest of us want it or not, and few people apart from our cossetted cadre of judges,…
THE WILDEST WEATHER in some time has been pounding the Northcoast, with Anderson Valley absorbing a dozen direct lightning strikes between Boonville and Philo with…
Before the California Judicial Council was voted in by the state legislature, the local judge was a justice of the peace and was known to…
BREAK THROUGH LEAD SENTENCE by Derek Moore in the Press Democrat's Christmas Eve weather story: “After a break in the weather, rain is expected to…