The staggering incoherence of the election campaign only mirrors the shocking incapacity of the American public, from top to bottom, to process the tendings of our time. The chief tending is permanent worldwide economic contraction.…
Posts published in September 2016
FAIR SUNDAY was marred by the death of a young motorcyclist on 128 near Navarro. He is identified as Andrew Robert “Drew” Dziki, 23, of Ukiah. The investigation of the accident, which occurred about 11am,…
Back in the days when the Philo radio station began its day with the NPR news program, a lady came in each morning to open the door and put the station on in the air. Usually she came in 30-45 minutes early, played classical music until her shift began. Her name was Loretta Houck.
So it’s Friday and I’m having one of those mornings where I feel certain the universe is an all-powerful sentient being picking on me for no good reason. Put another way, I’m feeling sorry for…
“Adults should face the fact that they don't like adolescents,” wrote Leon Botstein, president of Bard College, shortly after the Columbine school shooting in 1999, “and that they have used high school to isolate the…
Though there are far fewer examples of apples today than when I was a boy it is good to know that last weekend's gathering in Boonville was still called the Mendocino County Fair and Apple…
Woodhouse Incapacitated;
Turner 911;
Hare Creek;
Taj-MaTransfer Station;
Chestnut Street;
County News;
Pumpkin Truck;
Trump Vandalized;
Mendocino Voice;
Remembrance Day;
Bulgarian Farmers;
Footpath Assault;
Yesterday's Catch;
Prop 64;
Artists Confab;
Mixed Up;
Donald Perfect;
1,000 Books;
Naked Ladies;
Giant Reversal;
Greedy;
Prop 59