We happened on an April presentation by a young State Water Board staffer named Jeff Parks in Willits. Parks was rapping, one might say in the lingo of the Summer of Love, to a rapt…
Posts published in June 2017
Of all the mystifying shit that youth is getting up to these days — body-madding, skinny jeans, gender-hopping, emoji poetry, and molecular cuisine being just a few notable examples — I find the proliferation of…
ABC7 News has learned a controversial freeway project that Caltrans claimed cost $300 million actually cost $460 million, 50 percent more than the agency told the public. Documents obtained by ABC7 News show Caltrans has…
I really wasn't sure I wanted to grow this year, the stress of selling it was overwhelming, the price always going down, and all the packaging and repackaging, all the handling was finally getting to…
In your life you must go to Yellowstone. If you can't or haven't, come on, come along. I was a tour bus driver and a park ranger there for several seasons. I've been taking folks…
Several years ago we rented a farm house to a couple new to the area. Ironically the man’s father-in-law had just purchased our property in Hopland, making it possible for us to purchase the small…
Reefer Madness;
Financially Irresponsible;
Woodcut Exhibit;
EPIC Lawsuit;
Literacy Test;
Employee #2299198966;
Satanic Hysteria;
Little Dog;
Oafish Louts;
Yesterday's Catch;
Democratic Dissembling;
Attack Anyway;
Quixote Country;
RepublicanCare;
Retahhds;
Bridge Toll;
Poetry Reading;
Job Announcement;
Play Group;
Bird;
Lake Swimming;
Deficit Scam
But Ob-Gyn Saved, For Now... By a 5-0 vote the Board of Directors of the Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) has decided to keep the obstetrics (OB) department open for the next three years. The…
Ahh, those Anderson Valley mornings. At the Mosswood before things heated up it was calm and happy, the smiling lovely staff providing truly wonderful coffee, and there were open seats out front. I plunked my…