Every since the abominable attacks on Paris I’ve been emailing my closest French friends, Jean-Francois and Virginie, for first-hand news of the tragedy that unfolded there. From what I understand, they’ve been carrying on as…
Posts published in November 2015
Thanksgiving looms like a giant mutant turkey at the outskirts of town, swinging wattles generating a cooling breeze as it casts its gimlet eye on the populace soon to become mulch under its horny yellow…
Grist Creek Aggregates, owner of the site producing rubberized asphalt on Covelo Road, about two miles east of Highway 101, has filed a lawsuit against Mendocino Air Quality Management District and Mendocino Air Quality Control…
Freeze Watch;
Winter Burning;
Navarro Low;
Extended Families;
Measure U;
FB Water;
Desalination;
Yesterday's Catch;
Middletown Song;
Hitchhiking France;
PA Holiday;
Doorman;
Privatization Demise;
Mendocino History;
Broadband Alliance;
Identity Politics;
Intellectuals Expounding;
Frankenfish;
MCERA Meeting;
Tree Rings;
Light Festival;
Ridgetop;
County Vacancies;
Thanksgiving Quiz
We’ve all seen it. At home, at school, at the bar — some big guy picks a fight with a little dude and the little guy cleans the big guy's clock.
Leonard DeVilbiss, aka the big guy, said he only wanted to help Brandan Magill, aka the little guy, but got smashed on the head with a crowbar for trying to do the right thing.
Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Richard Henderson issued a ruling on October 21 setting aside the County's approval of a vested right to mine Harris Quarry sought by Northern Aggregates. The court found that the County did not have enough evidence before it to grant Northern Aggregates a "vested right" and ruled on behalf of Keep the Code, a nonprofit community group based in Willits which had filed a lawsuit against the County.
It was a damp Wednesday morning, three-fifths of the way into November. Fifteen minutes before the Mendocino County Mental Health Board was set to convene, a homeless man curled inside his sleeping bag on the…
THE TINY HOUSES VILLAGE proposed for Ukiah by the Supervisors, with Supervisor McCowen leading the charge will, if it proceeds, be an interesting experiment. If you came in late the Supervisors would provide housing for…