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Posts published in September 2018

Blue

I have an indelible picture in my mind of a poet dressed all in blue, head to foot, blue flowing long skirt and blue flying…

Valley People (Sep. 5, 2018)

The non-profit alternative school, Boont Tribe Community School, for elementary and middle school aged children here in Anderson Valley is almost off and running...after a very long construction delay. I need some help with advertising/fundraising/grant writing.

Ukiah’s Main Street Murder of 1879

A.O. Carpenter, editor of the Ukiah City Press, labored in his newspaper office early one Thursday morning in April, 1879. The screams of a woman…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Sep. 5, 2018

Ranch Fire;
Marketing PV;
Reith Reading;
Little Dog;
FB Agenda;
Candidate Morsell-Haye;
Sick River;
Jumped Ship;
Insurance Reforms;
Yesterday's Catch;
Uberputz;
Gluten Free;
Crooks;
Singer;
Advance Directive;
LSD;
Kaepernick Ad;
Shotgun Confirmation;
Salad Recipe;
Kavanaugh;
Blue

Cat Lady Syndrome, Equine Division

“Are you from the newspaper?” “Uhmhumn, I am.” “Hello, I’m Anne Delaquadra.” “Nice to meet you.” “Are you with the Ukiah paper?” “No, the one…

Off the Record (Sep. 5, 2018)

THE BIG FIRES are just about extinguished but still no formal announcement of their causes. We are reliably informed that the reason for the largest, the Ranch Fire, is known and not arson. But the River Fire remains under investigation. If you came in real late, the Ranch Fire started on the Guntley ranch property off Highway 20 near the Potter Valley turnoff. The River Fire that began just off Highway 175 and burned east over the mountain darn near into Lakeport is still a mystery as to what ignited it.

Air Tax Next?

As we discussed here several weeks ago, I said I’d be keeping both eyes open in the event the on again-off again, on again-off again proposal to tax public drinking water was resurrected in the closing days of the current legislative year that occurs on August 31.

Bibi: The Turbulent Life & Times of Netanyahu

“The problem with Israel,” Tony Judt wrote in the New York Review of Books in 2003, “is not – as is sometimes suggested – that it is a…

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