All is well here at our house. Religious fanatics were on other side of town. But religious fanaticism is a threat all the way around…
Posts published in February 2015
Herbicide Meeting;
Frost-fan Season;
Woodhouse Impression;
FB Council Meeting;
Catch o'the Day;
NCRA v CEQA;
Degrees of Crazy;
Burl Poaching;
Pocahontas;
Contemptible Heroes;
Hot Mannequins;
Medical Insurance;
Museum Exhibits;
Ukiah Artwork;
Melcher v Sakowicz;
Pledge Flop;
Mental Health Meeting
“Clean up your act, not your image” is the slogan of the stopgreenwash.org campaign recently launched by none other than Greenpeace International, which seeks to expose the hype behind the shiny, green marketing claims of corporate plunderers in the oil, electricity, automobile, coal, nuclear, and forestry sectors.
FROST FANS in vineyards northeast of Central Boonville kicked on Monday and Tuesday morning about midnight, as did the sprinkler system in the vast vineyard…
The destructive mowing of the Headlands State Park in Mendocino is so sad to see. All the foliage is gone except a few small patches. No more habitat at all, no roses, no berries, no grasses, no small paths, no secret quiet spots, no lizards, snakes, mice; nothing interesting at all just stubble and skitched raw earth.
Apparently, this past week has seen a journalist from Newsweek, the national weekly magazine, in the Valley researching an article that will feature your beloved AVA, the last real newspaper in America! Perhaps there is more on the event elsewhere in this week’s edition but don’t be surprised if Messrs. Anderson, Scaramella, and McEwen act a little highpockety (to use a Boontling phrase) when you next see them around town.
I feel like Michael Corleone in The Godfather (Part III): “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” For me, it's…
In the 1940s I remember my grandfather digging a well at our pear ranch. It was not very deep and he lined with wooden boards.…
Last month the novelist, screenwriter, and CounterPunch contributor Clancy Sigal, whose most recent book is the vital Hemingway Lives!, sent me the following vignette, a…
Wild birds perch on bare lambsquarter limbs, picking off the tiny black seeds. Lambsquarters, the weed, is closely related to quinoa, the grain, one of…
NOT THAT SHE'S talking about why she left, but Suzette Cook, the smart and energetic young editor briefly in charge of news for the twin…