DOUG MCKENTY has been fired by KZYX. An affable young family man who lives in Elk, McKenty was offed ostensibly because someone dropped the F-bomb during McKenty's twice-a-month Open Lines program, the only two hour-long…
Posts published in September 2013
I'VE GOT IT! I know how to make the America's Cup an interesting event, an event for real boats and real sailors, not these water borne Lego constructs the billionaires get all excited about. Open…
JOHNNY PINCHES’ LAST ACT by Bruce Anderson Johnny Pinches has announced he will not run for another term as Third District Supervisor. Pinches, a Laytonville rancher, has always put the broader interests of Mendocino County…
HUGE TURNOUT Friday afternoon at the Fort Bragg Senior Center in support of the Center's director, Charles Bush. The four women who'd engineered Bush's dismissal did not attend the meeting and have resigned, as did…
FORT BRAGG MAN MURDERED WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO. The following is reported by the Bay Area News Group: “The storied rivalry between the Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers took a violent and deadly turn…
BACK-TO-BACK jive stories from the Press Democrat on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday, Glenda Anderson reported from Ukiah that the SEIU one-day strike was a great success. Glenda's source? An SEIU spokesperson. The strike, the brainchild…
When I hear talk of air strikes I think of Dresden, and not just because, like so many American school kids I had to read Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. I first visited the city in 1989…