When I was growing up south of Los Angeles, anything north of, say, Santa Barbara seemed like Alaska. Or, almost. Certainly up above San Francisco…
Posts published in July 2013
Oralia Maceda, an immigrant mother from Oaxaca, asked the obvious last weekend in Fresno. At a meeting, talking about the Senate immigration reform bill, she…
Whether on silver screen or in symphony hall, it can be a curse to be type cast. So consummately did Bach play the part of…
Several weeks after the approval of a resolution discouraging the use and sale of rodenticides, the HumCo Board of Supervisors has been updated on the…
THAT LETHAL FIVE-CAR pile-up on Highway 20 near the Potter Valley turn-off? Captain Randy Johnson of the Mendocino County Sheriff's Department kicked it off when…
ACCORDING to an AP report that claims AP has “exclusive survey data,” (data they paid for) four out of five American adults “struggle with joblessness,…
THE RECENT WILLITS NEWS editorial about last week’s arrest of the paper’s photographer, Mr. Eberhard, at the Willits Bypass construction site, says the Bypass is…
A 15-YEAR-OLD runaway from a Los Angeles group home was apparently kidnapped and kept as a sex slave on a Lake County marijuana farm. The…
BACK IN 2011, the Mendo Board of Supervisors discussed logging the 57 County-owned acres of timber near the Little River Airport. It was a long…
WHAT'S BLACK and never works? Decaf, you racist dog! ======================================================== EARLY POLLING shows Hillary Clinton leading the Democratic pack by a wide margin, with a…
YOU DON’T KNOW RALPH Editor, Any time the name ‘Ralph Nader’ comes up, it is sure to stir controversy. It is like waving a red…