Early reactions to Tuesday’s joint meeting between the Supes and the Retirement Board left several attendees thinking that although the Board's financial expert Ted Stephens knows his stuff, he has a fundamentally conservative view that…
Posts published in January 2016
Is the crisis in Fukushima over or just beginning? You might be forgiven for scratching your head at that one. Nearly five years after the nuclear meltdown triggered by the Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami,…
Why, if a film is meant to be as historically accurate as possible, should its soundtrack be allowed—even encouraged—to be flagrantly out-of-sync with the times and styles being portrayed on screen? Consider two far-from-celebrated examples.…
OVER THE PAST THREE WEEKS, we've had only three rain-free days. Put differently, over the past 21 days, 18 were wet. During that stretch Yorkville's season total jumped from 16.7 to 33.9 inches. That means 17.2…
Hummingbird and I visited the newly-opened Bewildered Pig at the Floodgate in the Deep End last weekend. The restaurant looks wonderful, the ambience works very well, and the service was excellent. I won’t go into the food details; you can find out for yourselves, suffice to say it was delectable, and the twenty or so local folks there to whom I talked all had very positive things to say.
I was dismayed to see what was an obviously biased letter posted online in your "Mendocino County Today" column titled, "Sage Non-Persons Her Critics." Placing it there gives it an air of veracity. In fact, the letter's author has been part of a personal, months-long social media campaign against the Mendocino Animal Care Services shelter, promulgating hurtful, fact-free opinions, and bashing the competence and morality through the use of inflammatory rhetoric.
AVA COURT REPORTER BRUCE McEWEN and I had lunch Thursday at the attractive and affordable vegetarian restaurant at the City of 10,000 Buddhas in Talmage, formerly the State Hospital at Talmage. As we toured the…