I'm going to climb up on my soapbox right now and declaim, if for no other reason than I've got one, on something that may seem rather picayune and would therefore make me look like…
Posts published in October 2017
Q: Hugh Hefner lasted a long time, didn’t he? How might history remember him? A: Fun Fact: Hef was one of the first to invest in Viagra stocks. Q: David Brooks in The New York Times called…
Around 1870, at the tender age of 25, when he closed his office every evening, Paul Gauguin would leave the Berlin Bank, where he worked as a liquidator, and cross the Rue Laffitte puffing on…
Mill Talk;
Ed Desk;
BOS Matters;
Little Dog;
Secondhand Marijuana;
Police Reports;
CEO Report;
B Endorsement;
Mental Health Forum;
Yesterday's Catch;
Puerto Rico;
Modest Start;
America Reacts;
Block Party;
Happy Shooting;
Art Contest;
Protest Support;
Library Events;
Contrition/Renunciation
A bright and beautiful spring day in Ukiah found Suzanne Tuttle working in her garden when the man with no tattoos appears on the sidewalk, a nice looking young man with his shirt off. Ms.…
The one thing you can say about the all-too-familiar genre of posthumous documentary in which dozens of admirers bear dutiful witness to the deceased’s unrecognized artistic achievements, is that at least the departed are spared…
ON MONDAY of this week, Supervisors John McCowen and Dan Hamburg convened a meeting of their two-person Public Health, Safety, and Resources Committee to discuss the County’s Class K relaxed-standards building code, which apparently hasn’t…
A YOUNG MAN was found dead on the sidewalk near the corner of Franklin and Fir last Saturday, Sept. 23, just before 7 p.m. The man, identified as 32-year-old Samuel Michael Gibney, was believed to have been a transient from Fort Bragg, according to Capt. Gregory Van Patten of the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office.
[Nov 3] Help the Symphony of the Redwoods Continue to Bring Excellent Performances to the Mendocino Coast In downtown Fort Bragg, on the first Friday of every month, locally-owned downtown businesses encourage the sustainability of…