I've been recuperating from some unidentified type of virus, a flu or something that refuses to exit completely. For close to a month I have felt drained, energyless; it's hard to put one foot in…
Posts published in December 2016
I waited 16 months for Sonoma County to issue their report on the spraying of my grapevines. I did not get a call as promised, but at a social occasion I happened to learn that…
The publisher of the consolidated Mendocino Coast newspapers is retiring. In modern parlance her 23 years as publisher is considered a long tenure. Long before those two papers were taken over by corporate interests and…
Monsieur Bewley;
Supes Notes;
Little Dog;
Woodhouse Released;
Street Smarts;
California Independence;
Yesterday's Catch;
LiquiGlide;
Cupcaker;
Principled Elector;
Christmas Terror;
Creative People;
Pizzagate;
Drought Bill;
Mushroom Class;
Alfred E Neuman;
Library Events
The impact of Proposition 64 has been reverberating through the courtrooms these past two weeks and a number of cases have stalled to assess how things will shape up. On Wednesday Judge John Behnke announced…
We’ve been picking up our neighbor’s Press Democrat while he is away in Idaho hunting elk. The headline article of the Sunday edition is about the shortage of rental properties in Mendocino and all over California and America due to so many people choosing to go the Air B&B route with their rental units rather than rent long term to locals.
"Everybody knows the war is over, everybody knows the good guys lost." — Leonard Cohen "Our lifelong cynicism about the American character has been vindicated. I Told You So has never felt worse. On the…
SEE THEIR LETTER, but it seems clear that the mass resignation of the Board of the Small Farmers Association (SFA) is aimed at Julia Carrera, who lists herself on the SFA website as "SFA representative"…