Sustainable Beekeeping Workshop at Solar Living Institute this Saturday Buzzing with life: Sustainable Beekeeping workshop offers insights into hives The Solar Living Institute in Hopland will offer a workshop on Sustainable Beekeeping this Saturday, May 31st,…
Posts published in May 2014
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. It’s been a very busy time on the social scene this past couple of weeks as summertime has the events calendar fully stocked.…
A comprehensive system for regulating the production, distribution, sale and taxation of medical marijuana in California could pass the State Assembly this week. AB 1894, written by Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D-SF), was voted out of…
As a Mendocino employee I would say your reporting on the contract negotiation snafu has been pretty accurate during the last few years. SEIU clearly staked out an adversarial position, first to stonewall the need for a pay cut, and now to restore it whether the County has the money or not.
The check fraud case against Christopher Mulcahy continued to crawl through Judge Behnke’s court last week with all the drama of a snail’s progress through a vegetable patch. Late in the week, DA David Eyster…
MENDOCINO COUNTY is less broke than it has been, CEO Carmel Angelo told her captive board of supervisors last week. Supervisor John McCowen didn't leap to his feet to shout hossanahs, but he did express…
MEMORIAL DAY came and went without discernible pause from the beer and great hunks of grilled meat it has come to mean, but a few people did pay tribute to all those lost hundreds of thousands, most of them very young, who went off to do what they thought was the right thing and never came back.
San Francisco has been oft-referred to as “49 square miles, surrounded by reality.” And the fabled Haight-Ashbury district is oft-noted as the most unreal square mile therein. Every April 20th — “4/20” — it becomes…
One of my hobbies in these days of societal collapse—most of us in denial about how far the fungus of cultural disintegration has progressed—is watching trailers for recently made movies, American and foreign, and from…