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Posts published in January 2018

Off the Record (Jan. 24, 2018)

LEE HOWARD, the outspoken Ukiah Valley contractor who has been keeping an eye on the Redwood Complex fire clean-up project, wants to know why he was arrested for simply photographing the debris cleanup being done…

Maxstadt Gets Maxed

Ryan Maxstadt of San Jose was found guilty of attempted murder on a peace officer late Friday afternoon for taking two shots at CHP Officer Ty Lewis near the end of a high-speed pursuit from…

Ab Regs, Then & Now

By a 4-0 vote in December the California Fish and Game Commission decided to close the 2018 recreational abalone season because of “ongoing environmental conditions that have significantly impacted the abalone resource.” The closure affects…

Existentialist

Boston, 1967 — My band called The Ones was playing a regular gig at the Brown Derby, five nights a week or something like that. We had been reviewed in a new trade paper called…

Marianelli’s Musical Bears

The Special Relationship shows increasing signs of fatigue from Trump’s kicks and punches. His state visit to the Island Kingdom is off again, the reason cited last Friday in a midnight tweet being that Donald…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018

More Rain;
Overlay Plan;
Enforcement Contract;
Pot Czar;
Kai Case;
Wave;
Social Media;
Cleanup Watch;
Goldfishing;
Taco Jack;
Rows;
Supe Platform;
Potter Water;
Excellence Found;
Little Dog;
Plowshares Future;
Cannabis Tourism;
Gieringer Interview;
Dems Cave;
Yesterday's Catch;
Native Tongue;
Self Knowledge;
Lighthouse;
Cynical Naivete;
Huffpost Community;
Pussydog;
Pinky Swear;
Ovary-Act;
FBI Questions;
Shutdown;
Piano Concert;
Waikikifulness;
Cheater;
Water Protest

Quackery on the Radio

In the 1920s and 30s, regulators and experts grappled with how to stop the sale of dubious devices and miracle cures over the airwaves. 

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Jan. 22, 2018

KZYX Whistleblowing;
Women's March;
Female Councilors;
Suspicious Fires;
Little Dog;
Old Wine;
Mendo Bay;
Kai Busting;
Yesterday's Catch;
Housing Issues;
Fake Stuff;
Basic Truth;
Doing Time;
Perpetual War;
Wyoming;
Shooting War;
Trumpcycle;
DWR Allegations;
Miss 1946;
Momma Says

Tanoak Talk

[Feb 11] Dear friends of tanoak, I wanted to let you know that I will be giving two tanoak talks in northern California (see attached poster for the talk in Arcata on Feb 8th). The second…

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