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Posts published in September 2013

Apple Bowl 2013

Last Friday night, the first night of the Fair, the Apple Bowl football game was played after a moving tribute to the veterans of all wars. WWII vets Willis Tucker and Paul Titus were there…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. What a fun weekend that was! The County Fair was once again a very enjoyable event and virtually everyone I spoke with…

Mendocino County Today: September 19, 2013

THAT DISPUTE between County Auditor-Controller Meredith Ford and DA David Eyster over where varying portions of asset forfeiture money should go, is complicated by Ms. Ford's poor health. She has been battling cancer, meaning lots…

Mendocino County Today: September 18, 2013

FRED GARDNER WRITES: Remembering Saul Landau — Saul could tell a joke and make you laugh. Saul could tell a joke and make you laugh. This is the last one I heard him tell: There's…

‘Personalized Medicine’

Technology rules our lives, or rather, those who develop and sell it want us to believe that. Those who are peddling all manner of genetic testing really want us to take it on faith that…

River Views

A year ago this week I wrote about a then obscure independently produced documentary called Searching for Sugar Man, about a Detroit singer/songwriter who disappeared into the dustbin of the American corporate music business in…

Life & Death

Marcia and I had breakfast on Wednesday morning at Ravens’, the wholly vegan restaurant at the Stanford Inn, our meal courtesy of a gift certificate Marcia received for officiating at a wedding. I especially enjoyed the coffee and orange juice and the view of Big River Beach.

The People v. Will Parrish

The phylogenetic morphallaxis of certain dendrophiles as they impinge upon the oscine avifauna specific to Little Lake Valley has caused considerable consternation among the more ecologically sensitive officers of the California Highway Patrol, and that…

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