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Posts published in January 2016

Macdonald Book Signing

[Jan 16] Friends, Readers, and those just looking for free food and drink, One more reminder that Saturday evening, 6:30 PM, I will be reading and signing copies of Outlaw Ford at Gallery Bookshop in…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Jan 7, 2016

Rainfall;
Pinizzotto Resigns;
Behavioral Health;
Iris & Charles Hafley;
Supes Video;
Macdonald Reading;
Propoganda Act;
Sandbags Available;
128 Not Closed;
Grape Gangs;
Yesterday's Catch;
Lost Coast;
Position Announcement;
Sanders Speech;
Cultural Ills;
Feminist Vote;
Broadband Meeting

10 Questions for Trump

Dear Mr. Trump: I have some questions: 1. "He wants to be famous. He wants people to talk about him. He wants people to notice him. He wants people to write about him. He wants…

Lone Pine

The Inyo was the land of the Paiute for thousands of years. They say Inyo means dwelling place of great spirits. The modern county that bears the Inyo name is home to Mt. Whitney, the…

A Horse Named Fitch

Cooler weather has finally arrived with the annual return of the flocks of sandhill cranes. The winter wheat, usually burned by freezes to a retreated frazzle of dark green and brown at this time of…

Letters (Jan 6, 2016)

I have heard the remorse and desperation in the local farmers’ voice regarding the impending legalization of the Herb here in California as it must be so in 2016.

“Vote no! No! No” they cry!

They have seen visions of the miles of neat green rows racing off in each direction from Highway 5, the seas of green crop destined to drop the price of the almighty pound to something along the lines of organic asparagus.

A Wasted Stretch

I was exhausted, having spent my days off among the bangers of Waugh Lane in Ukiah and nearly getting my cap peeled by a pair of school-age junior-grade neo-Norteños who asked me who I ran…

Four Chairs

Marcia and I recently bought four new chairs for our dining nook, and I think the way we got these chairs and the feelings they inspired will be of interest to people of my generation, those of us born in America between 1945 and 1955 or thereabouts. We were teenagers and young adults during the world-changing era known as the Sixties, which I believe lasted roughly from 1963 to 1975. By no coincidence those are also the years of the American chapter of the Vietnam War.

New Work Awaits KMUD’s News Director

An era is ending for the news department of KMUD FM, Southern Humboldt’s listener-sponsored radio station, as its community-conscious director Terri Klemetson is leaving her post. Klemetson’s seven-year stint as KMUD’s news and public affairs…

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