WILL PARRISH, perhaps best known as a writer with the AVA, will next appear in court on Monday, January 27th, where he faces a wild…
Posts published in “Day: January 15, 2014”
Ithaca, New York — I live between a gorge and a cemetery, a position that often gets me to thinking about the fleeting nature of life.…
My wife and I visited Boonville late last July. We came to see some friends on the weekend of the Not So Simple Living Fair, which sounded like the sort of thing we would be interested in. Perhaps humanity can survive the "cheap" carbon energy era with far fewer of us living a radically different way of life.
We were having supper with friends recently, and somehow the conversation came around to Shakespeare and the news that a number of American universities have dropped the Bard entirely from their lists of required courses for English majors. And the question was asked, “Why should Shakespeare be required reading for English majors in this age of tweeting and texting and unedited garbage topping the bestseller lists and the English language disintegrating faster than the earth is warming?
THE MENDO County Supervisors, on Tuesday (7th January), voted unanimously to declare a local emergency “and imminent threat of disaster” from drought, and appointed two…
ABOUT AN HOUR of rain fell on Mendocino County Saturday morning, just enough to sweeten the air and whet our thirst for more, much more.…
I wanted to make mention about the use of pepper spray on inmates. Naturally I can't say what goes on in all the penitentiaries. But at the prisons I've been to, I can tell you that I'd like to have the franchise on pepper spray because they now use "super soaker" to punish fighters, smartmouths, and the "general population."
Last Thursday, the “ad hoc committee” recently convened by the Community Services District Board met to explore the possibility of city-style incorporation for the Anderson…
Yesterday San Francisco’s politicians announced that Google, Apple, and other Silicon Valley companies will be charged for the use of the city’s bus stops. Until…
TINFOIL HAT ALERT, ALBION! Verizon is asking the County's Planning Commission for permission to erect "a 105-foot monopole supporting 12 panel antennas, including two GPS…
Defense lawyers from all over the county crowded Judge Anne Moorman’s courtroom last Wednesday to hear how she would rule on this very point. An energetic free market Laytonville man named Samuel Baker stood accused of presiding over a large-scale pot op.