November 28, 2012, morning: I'm sitting at my desk working. Along about 11:30, I hear the front gate click, and onto the property walks a…
Posts published in April 2013
About a year ago I talked with Leonard Winter, the operator of Ukiah Ambulance, about ambulance operating procedures. During the conversation Winter mentioned that he…
AS OF MONDAY afternoon, a woman identified so far only as “Owl,” has commenced a Willits Bypass tree sit. ======================================================== A LOCAL READER WRITES: I…
THE PD PUBLISHED a puffaroo Sunday about how to attend Giants games without taking out a mortgage to fund a day at the ballpark. Probably…
THE NORTHCOAST'S new congressman, Jared 'Spike' Huffman, told the Press Democrat that he's raised $80,000 in re-election dough only months into his first term. Huffman,…
THE QUESTION was prompted by the frequent catch-and-release arrests of a Navarro man: “If the County Jail has empty beds, how come the judges don't…
A MILDLY FRAUGHT Wednesday in San Francisco began with a dead man and a bomb scare. I'd just footed it out to Baker Beach and…
THIS PARAGRAPH from the Wednesday edition of the Press Democrat manages to misstate the case: “The Willits protest, in comparison, is much more tightly focused.…
WHAT IS LOCAL? Editor, I am an Environmentalist! There I said it. I have been all my life I suppose. Ever since I learned on…