THE PRESS DEMOCRAT announced Wednesday it's going to charge for its on-line edition. Bad idea. The PD doesn't do anything worth paying for. The SF Chron just tried a pay-to-read scheme the Chron abandoned after…
Posts published in September 2013
KZYX'S SELDOM SEEN station manager, John Coate, is in Australia to attend a radio conference, and news blurb guy Paul Lambert is on vacation. Lambert's interim replacement is a fellow called Michael Kisslinger of Ukiah.…
‘A BUNCH OF MOPES’? Editor, If anyone who may have read Bill Brundage's letter on the topic of racial profiling is scratching their head over the contradictions, or in latter-day terms — “cognitive disconnect” contained…
IT COULD HAPPEN HERE! The Albany County (New York) sheriff says a 50-year-old man is dead after being nearly decapitated by a wire he had strung on his property to protect a marijuana crop from…
I guess you could say the idea of Brock Farms started at an early age. I was hooked at 12 by the magic that you can plant this little seed and you get a watermelon,…
From the first moments onward, it was clear that a Jared Huffman-sponsored “panel” was charged with the task of rolling out the wonders of the Affordable Care Act. For the next two hours, a tightly controlled presentation of selected elements of the Affordable Care Act was given, with Jared Huffman moderating the entire affair.
Attorney General Eric Holder phoned the governors of Colorado and Washington August 29 to advise that the U.S. Department of Justice will allow implementation of the marijuana-law reforms enacted by voters in 2012. Some call…
The 2013 AV High School Boys’ soccer season began last week with two matches, both played here in Boonville alongside the high school at Tom Smith Field. The opener was a league match-up against Rincon…
The giant Burning Man structure went up in flames on Labor Day weekend as usual, and I watched it — online. It looked very dramatic and impressive. As the tens of thousands of “BM” attendees gathered around to watch and cheer in person as the smoke and fireworks rose to the sky, it also reminded me of the main reason I don't go up there to witness it all in person.