We first met Jack June in 1972, and what a surprise it was. My wife and I were part of the hippie invasion driving up property prices and corrupting Anderson Valley youth with our New…
Posts published in August 2018
The City Council meeting met Monday night in Fort Bragg’s Townhall was packed. I am always amazed at how much is revealed by intention or by omission at City Council meetings. Whatever they intend to…
The end of July and the beginning of August always reminds me of berry picking time, blackberries that is. Until the extinction of rotary phones this part of the year meant the telephone at the…
A polite term for it is “puffery.” It's also known as “advertiser-friendly journalism.” It has often plagued the magazine industry and especially since the 1920s when President Calvin Coolidge observed that advertising was “part of…
Eel Fire;
County Slackers;
Complex Updates;
Heating Planet;
Train Chasing;
Little Dog;
Suspect Released;
Winnebago Sunk;
Independence Money;
AVHC News;
Turbid Murk;
Yesterday's Catch;
Dark Age;
Gorilla Meditation;
Gardens Art;
Free Kindling;
Hue/Cry;
Marco Radio;
Browndoggle;
Not Crimes;
Charging Stations;
Featured Artist
UNPRECEDENTED: A reasonable response from the Supervisors to a public comment! Ron Edwards of Willits offered a couple of simple suggestions to improve the Pot Permit report at the recent meeting of the Board of…
Two vegetation fires broke out in Mendocino County Friday afternoon the 27th of July, sending large plumes of gray-ish smoke into Mendocino County’s summer air visible for miles around. These two fires began when California’s firefighting capacity was already thin and tired from fires throughout the state.