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Posts published in “Day: February 24, 2016

What Stood Out

At 7:30 this morning I went out the door of #518 on my way to work. I usually come and go via the stairs, but today, my hands full, and thinking the wood I was carrying might prove awkward in the stairwells, I came down by elevator instead.

The Hollowness Of Loss

I first met the celebrated American composer Steven Stucky not in Ithaca, where we have both lived for the past twenty years, but in Los Angeles on February 26, 1995. I arrived in Ithaca later that year; Steve had taken up what proved to be a more than three-decade-long post as professor of music at Cornell back in 1980 after doing his doctorate in composition at the university in the 1970s.

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Feb 24, 2016

Cryer Resigns;
Open Government;
Advocate-Beacon Homeless;
Local Wildlife;
Bias Plying;
Shelter Story;
Not News;
Ukiah Costco/Palace;
Downtown Boonville;
County Pensions;
Weather Shelter;
Ukiah Vacancies;
Dunakin Sentenced;
Yesterday's Catch;
Barbara Yaley;
Rising Seas;
Gameface;
The Bern;
Public Safety;
Nevada Squeaker;
Tweeker Alert;
Industrial Death;
Vaccination Numbers;
Gun Bill;
Restoration Agriculture;
Americana Night;
Eco Revolution

Who Needs ASOs?

Last Tuesday the Board of Supervisors spent most of the day trying to deal with the highly anticipated Kemper report regarding Mendo’s disastrous privatization of mental health services. The most frequently heard platitudes centered on…

Bird’s Eye View (Feb 24, 2016)

Given all the current new/revived restaurant business in the Valley, and in recent years a number of them coming and going almost as quickly as it takes to make a pizza, it is clearly a wonderful achievement that Lauren’s Restaurant in Boonville will be celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary this coming Saturday, February 27.

The State Of Jefferson

There are two sides to the State of Jefferson secessionist movement in its Northern California, Southern Oregon heartland, and the two halves of that coin are diametrically opposed, politically. On the right you have the…

Off the Record (Feb 24, 2016)

SUSAN KEEGAN was bludgeoned to death in her home five years ago. The only other person present was Dr. Peter Keegan, Susan's husband of thirty years. When David Eyster was elected DA, Mrs. Keegan's death…

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