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Posts published in April 2017

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, April 27, 2017

Clearing 101;
FB Fire;
Alex Osorio;
Jeep Crash;
Wildflower Show;
Animal Nuts;
Newspaper Errors;
Little Dog;
Quiz Night;
1957 Rains;
Mendo Libertarians;
Dockins Wanted;
Mummy Case;
DA Praise;
Cannibals Disband;
Boontling Classic;
Ritdet Convicted;
ADA Lawsuit;
Yesterday's Catch;
Flattened Poles;
Mexican Checkpoint;
Moving Women;
Berkeley Confrontations;
Heroin Overdoses;
Compost Workshop;
PG&E Taxes;
PG&E Rates;
Ceremonial Women;
Stehrred Up;
SB 808;
Memorial Day;
July 4

Six Bullets For Andy Warhol

He invented frivolity as aesthetic attitude to life and determined that the essence of things is merely in the packaging. This designer was Andy Warhol, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928, son of a coal miner who was a Slovak migrant. After being baptized in a Byzantine Catholic rite, the youngster contracted Saint Vitus Dance at the age of 13, which caused his four limbs to move uncontrollably.

Letters (April 26, 2017)

There seems to be some confusion about Sonoma Clean Power's offer to include Mendocino County. Maybe this will clear things up a bit: A CCA or “Community Choice Energy” gives customers a choice in their energy provider.

Coast Logging History

In 1979 my father sat at the kitchen table in the log house he, my mother, and paternal uncles constructed by hand. He stared in consternation at a four page document that had to be…

Raiding The Tomb of Lubitsch

At the 1947 Los Angeles funeral of that genius of urbane film comedy, Ernst Lubitsch, fellow émigré Billy Wilder said mournfully, “No more Lubitsch.” The director William Wyler, yet another German-born expatriate, responded, “Worse than…

Transparency Anyone?

The much touted openness and transparency in Fort Bragg's city government that has come out of the last few years of political wrath, general indignation and community opposition, is opened maybe a crack. The City…

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