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Posts published in March 2016

Theft: The Offspring Of Addiction

Rehab cut in half; property theft doubled; junkies and tweakers back in the 'hood, often as the homeless, and the promised millions for "Safer Neighborhoods"…

Cancer Patient Resources

[Mar 31] Guest speaker Carla Jupiter, representative for Mendocino County's Cancer Resources Center, will discuss resources available for cancer patients along the coast at the…

The Imazapyr Alliance

On June 10th, 2015, the Albion-Little River Fire Protection District's board of directors considered a resolution at a public meeting to prohibit intentionally killing trees…

Off the Record (Mar 2, 2016)

MENDO’S TULE ELK HERDS are growing. Like the reintroduced wild turkeys, reintroduced Elk have multiplied to where ranchers in the North County — Covelo, Laytonville, the Coast in the vicinity of upper Westport, Willits, and Potter Valley, complain that roughly 300 of an overall total of the great beasts estimated at some four thousand, are wreaking havoc with their fences and crops.

Live Oak Building Gone?

Many locals were saddened to see the demolition/rennovation job that is taking place at the Live Oak Building in downtown Boonville over the past week…

The Stony Lonesome: Trial & Error

Science. It's how things get figured out. It's the root of progress and knowledge and understanding. It's the whys and hows and wherefores, the keys…

Town Life

I have now lived in Mendocino for ten years, nine of those partnered with Marcia. Our little town gets flack for being a tourist trap, and there is no question that tourism and cannabis fuel the local economic engine, but so do carpentry, plumbing, school teaching, real estate, dentistry, nursing, doctoring, selling groceries, photocopying, and writing speculative fiction to name a few of the many things humans do hereabouts to make money.

The Cruz Omen

Talking about politics is not something I enjoy much, and we know all too well there is more than enough commentary everywhere on the absurd…

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