Between the late 1880s and the early 1930s mail was delivered to my grandparents home here at the Macdonald ranch simply by addressing their name…
Posts published in December 2017
Every once in a while it’s important to remind people in Comptche that we are outlaws. And we have been that way for quite a…
As an author in the midst of researching a new book on Mendocino County history I found myself perusing the “History of Mendocino County, California.”…
By way of analogy allow me to exaggerate about how to rob a bank without a gun. First, you become an elected official—say, a Mendocino…
The dread sound of Fukushima hardly sets the joyous Christmas bell to ringing. But a recent disc bearing simply that name from the experimental jazz…
Missing Information;
Weather Oracle;
Toxic Abandonment;
Flooded Open;
Sanitation Negotiations;
Little Dog;
Mega Raise;
Willits 1937;
KZYX Answers;
Flimsy Movies;
Pot Bust;
Disaster Info;
Yesterday's Catch;
Lee's Decisions;
Unequal;
Tiny Housing;
Boysen Peak;
Germany;
Train Control;
Pianist Concert;
Amazon Delivery;
Alice Donovan
In the days before the Brown Act passed in 1953, men (and of course they were all men) ran for County supervisor primarily to make…
THE SUPERVISORS, in a move that would pay them almost twice as much as the average private sector Mendo working person, voted 4-1 Monday to raise their…
The Fort Bragg City Council met at Town Hall last Monday night in another meeting running to the legal maximum of 10pm. From the outset,…
DAWN BROKE one morning last week in spectacular shades of red, heralding the predicted light rain that had not fallen as the sun sank much less spectacularly hours later over the west ridges. About 8am, a Yellow Cab inscribed “Fairfield” drove slowly through town, a to-and-from trip likely to run the passenger somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 bucks. The next vehicle of note was Gary Huntington's white PT Cruiser, a festive mini-Santa fixed to the hood.
On November 3rd Jason Ress took $539.71 worth of merchandise from Friedman’s in Ukiah — he was moving around from town to town on the North Coast,…