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Posts published in March 2018

Finding Bad Ideas

One of the first things I learned as an elected official many years ago was that citizen-voters have very modest expectations of officeholders and the bureaucrats who carry out their decisions. That’s certainly the case…

Plugging My Book

Self-publishing my book was much tougher than writing it, and getting it out there for people to see that it exists – plugging it – has been a real learning experience.

Doc Standley’s First Arrest, 1866 (Part 2)

A party of men, including Bailey rode to Leggett Valley where they found Johnson Heacock's severed head still stuck to the long pole thrust into the ground on the dead man's property. They took it…

Revolt Resurfaces

Revolutions don’t move in straight lines, but rather zigzag, bounce up and down and circle around. They also often skip a generation or two. Indeed, some generations are “angry,” others “silent.” Some are about “me” others about “we.”

Horehound On My Trail

Writing is hard; make no mistake about that. Any images you may hold in your mind of effete, indolent idlers casually pecking out romantic sagas as they sip cocktails and nip bonbons, pray banish them…

Living On The Cheap

To begin with, I've been in a Walmart a total of three times, emergency only. The Waltons don't need what little money I have. Here in the flyover zone we are awash in big box…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Missing Children;
Cultural Services;
Little Dog;
Clyde Lucas;
Ed Notes;
Decadence;
Driveway Dispute;
Mendocino Brewing;
Managing KZYX;
Free Cheese;
FB Arson;
Wave;
Boungnavath Convicted;
Public Recreation;
Yesterday's Catch;
Playboy Culture;
Cambridge Analytica;
Monsanto Champ;
Bolton System;
Easter Extravaganza;
Hammon's Out

Don’t Break The City Manager

On Monday Morning Mayor Lindy Peters was plucked up for jury duty. Our shiny new City Manager Tabatha Miller graciously stood in for him at the informal morning meeting. There was an hour’s notice that…

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