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Posts published in January 2015

A Journalist Lives Under Armed Guard

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/14/-sp-roberto-saviano-my-life-under-armed-guard-gomorrah For eight years journalist Robert Saviano has faced constant threat of death for writing about the Naples mafia in his groundbreaking book, Gomorrah. [text]

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Jan 17, 2015

Legalizing It;
Festival Fairgrounds;
49er Saga;
Good Writing;
Catch of the Day;
Bob Stone;
Water Discussion;
Ambulance Appreciation;
Asset Seizure;
Class War;
Veterans Healthcare;
Entitlements;
Pot Glut;
Collision Investigation;
Christmas Dinner;
The Nobodies;
American Icons;
2015 Predictions

Introducing: ME!

Monthly Networking Meeting Ukiah Valley Conference Center, 200 S. School St, Ukiah Date: January 20, 2015 12:00 PM PST Join us Tuesday, January 20 for our monthly networking meeting: 12:00 p.m. at Ukiah Valley Conference…

Calling Public Artists

"Call for Artists" for the 2015-2016 Sculpture Trail, a year-round outdoor exhibit of sculptures in the Northern Sonoma County communities of Cloverdale and Geyserville is now available. The sponsors of the exhibit, Cloverdale Arts Alliance…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Jan 16, 2015

Crumb Solidarity;
Light Rain;
Coast Hotel;
Losak's Letter;
Regressive Taxation;
Weed Good;
Catch of the Day;
Weed Bad;
Memo of the Week;
Media Auction;
Human Suicide;
Stupid GOP;
kzyx.us;
Ai Weiwei;
Collapsing Ecosystem

Jim Clark Could Give Pot Smugglers A Bad Name

A new movie recreates the March 7, 1965 civil rights march in Selma, Alabama that was violently suppressed by law enforcement and shamed Congress into passing a voters' rights bill. Howard Zinn had spent time…

The Stony Lonesome: Mendo Rocks!

Here at the Stony Lonesome offices, high atop a glittering skyscraper rising majestically heavenward from the undulating dunes of Abu Dhabi, we are nothing if not brutally, transparently honest. Just this morning Vicki, my gorgeous…

Goodbye Milwaukee

My Greyhound Bus ride from Milwaukee to Madison cost one dollar and ninety cents. The date, according to my old journal, was March 24, 1969. Madison was the first leg of my journey to California.…

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