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Posts published in February 2016

Big Changes At KZYX

Traveling the rain slicked, snake like curves of Orr Springs Road, opting for the shortest distance between two points, I found the January 4th meeting of the KZYX Board of Directors meeting already under way…

Feds May Use Eminent Domain to Build California Dam

Early last year, four US Bureau of Reclamation officials came to Anita Lodge’s seven-acre property deep in the San Joaquin River gorge, 33 miles northeast of Fresno. They explained in careful detail the legal process…

You Pay County Pensions; Who Pays Yours?

You hear a lot of rubbish about how county employees are underpaid (ha) and that if they don’t get big raises they’ll quit and swarm down to Sonoma County (as if). I did 24 years…

2015 Through A Greased Lens

Sometimes, near enough to the summer solstice that the days acquire a certain heft and the temperature and pressure of the evenings permits an easy flow of sensory information, certain sounds and aromas transport me…

Calliope Of Hope

On Saturday February 20 at 6:30 PM, I will be at Gallery Books in Mendocino reading from the new Counterpoint Press edition of my book Buddha In A Teacup. I self-published the book seven years…

Beyond Deportation

When President Obama appointed Dollie Gee to the U.S. District Court in 2010, he undoubtedly didn't expect her to mount a frontal challenge to his administration's detention and deportation policies. But five years after her…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Feb 4, 2016

Forked Mouth;
Coach Rage;
Transparent DA;
Scrutinizing Ortner;
Shelter Meeting;
CartMan Cleone;
School Board;
Grist Vote;
Reflection;
Winter Shelter;
Yesterday's Catch;
Old Hickory;
Pension Tension;
Unraveling;
Fish v Nuts;
Noyo Headlands;
Albion Housing;
Reality Starved;
Cherub's Ball

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