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Posts published in July 2017

The Rise and Fall of F. Lee Bailey

He helped O.J. beat a double murder rap. Now the legendary trial lawyer is disbarred and bankrupt. 

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, July 20, 2017

Homeless Union;
Little Dog;
Independent Audit;
Cultivator Comments;
Nobel Nonsense;
Kelseyville Shooting;
Yesterday's Catch;
Progressive Tax;
Self Promoter;
Women's Retreat;
Turkey Vulture;
Quiz Nights;
Deadbeat Diner;
Writers Conference;
Woodworking Grant;
Chinese Labor;
Thomas Mann;
Water Director;
Wealth's Daughter;
Ukiah Fair

Humanities

Donald Trump is a living, walking ad for the importance of the humanities. He’s too old to have coasted through the 1960s untouched by any of its idealism and issues of social justice, but there…

Why We Dropped Out

UDJ reporter Ashley Tressel gravely misrepresented my July 11 remarks to the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors during public comment on the county’s new cannabis cultivation regulations. What I said was that my partner and…

Hospitals For Whites Only?

Saw an article about right-wingers' disdain for institutions of learning (Trump: "I love the poorly educated"). One suggestion was because universities have non-white people in them. Well, okay. In a country full of people who…

Letters (July 19, 2017)

The Hospitality House has become a major source of serious problems for local residents and businesses, with increased littering,  loitering, and more serious crimes, degrading quality of life and harming the local economy

The Declaration of Sentiments

July 19th is the 200th day of the year. One hundred seventy-one years ago, on July 19, 1848 (a leap year), in the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Seneca Falls, New York, a Declaration…

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