Last Wednesday night the Community Services District reviewed a draft of a letter to the Planning Department concerning Blackbird Farm’s proposal to increase their allowed occupancy from 36 to a preposterous 292. The CSD’s draft…
Posts published in December 2016
Short Day;
Montana Maniac;
Emergency Exit;
Train Talk;
Timmy's Dog;
Little Dog;
Caretaker Charged;
Perv Sentenced;
Cairns;
No Grifters;
Yesterday's Catch;
Topsy Turvy;
Come a-Thistling;
Police Reports;
Personal Assistant;
End Times;
Newspaper Readers;
Jew Hating;
Thanks DNC;
Recognizing Palestine;
If Only;
Christmas Poem
This is a tale of two meetings. The first occurred Monday December 12th at Fort Bragg's Town Hall. The main order of business, recognizing outgoing councilmembers Scott Deitz and Doug Hammerstrom then seating Will Lee…
Since the election of Donald Trump, I have been haunted by aphorisms. Nothing happens in a vacuum. Everything is connected. There are no accidents. Life is but a dream.
In 1994 I called the Anderson Valley Health Center from a phone connected to a Redwood tree stump. I was in the third year of clearing land, milling wood, and building our house. I was…
From the beginning of Blackbird Farm in 2013, an unaccredited nonprofit, the 24 "students" brought in for 11 day stays have been housed in yurts - 12 boys in one, 12 girls in another. During the fall a year and a half ago on the one night between outgoing and incoming "students" that none were sleeping on site a very large tree came crashing down, totally destroying one of the yurts.
State officials and cannabis activists at the 13th Annual Emerald Cup in Santa Rosa called for solidarity among farmers, environmentally sound agricultural practices and caution in creating onerous regulations. An estimated crowd of 30,000 poured…