Twenty-five days (as of last week) into an historic statewide lockdown, Fort Bragg is feeling the strain. Like Mendocino County as a whole, the town is seeing a marked surge in interfamily disputes, domestic violence,…
Posts published in April 2020
Like his father before him, Terence Hallinan was prevented from practicing law by the California Bar Association. Vincent Hallinan's license had been suspended for three years (1957-1960) after he was convicted of federal income tax…
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO I pulled one of the dumbest stunts of my life: I started a band with a 14-year-old bassist who’d never played bass, a 12-year-old drummer who’d never played drums, and considerably older…
I read with great interest Chris Calder’s two great articles back to back on Sheriff Kendall in the Anderson Valley Advertiser. What spiked my interest was that the Sheriff came to Santa Rosa when he…
Last January, before all hell broke loose, Seven Stories Press republished Upton Sinclair’s 891-page anthology, The Cry for Justice, subtitled An Anthology of Social Protest with the original introduction by Jack London and a new introduction by Chris…
Weak System;
Coastal Trail Open;
End Times;
Revenues Down;
Trail Blader;
Mandatory Masking;
Teach Gardening;
Landlord Assistance;
John Muir;
Ed Notes;
Farm Report;
Food Banking;
Volunteer Kudos;
Yesterday's Catch;
Earth Day;
Drive-thru Pantry;
Mask Making;
Chainsaw Art;
Sentimental Crap;
Aleppo Citadel;
Under Reported;
Yellow Bricks;
GJ Applications;
Old Karelia;
Covid Release;
Hidden Beauty;
Jürgen Knemeyer;
Treebridge;
Bad Reporting;
Found Object
On Thursday April 16, 2020 during a conference call, Mendocino County Sheriff Mat Kendall reported the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) released two prisoners from a state correctional facility who might have been…
Rain Tomorrow;
Anthropogenic Megadrought;
Small Biz;
Mask Makers;
Boonville Farmers;
Two Fires;
Viola Sempervirens;
Wrathful Tidings;
Full Pews;
FB Test;
Pacific Sunset;
Night Walk;
Satellite Parade;
Ed Notes;
Eel Span;
Social Sacrifice;
Coastal Staircase;
Weed Grant;
Lear Binge;
Dumb & Demented;
Autistic Muppet;
Trumptown Warning;
Stampeders;
Comments;
Excelsior;
Delta Water;
Immoral Walls;
Placeholder Joe;
Saturnalia;
PPP Fail;
Homeless Hotels;
Fed Aristocracy;
Goodbye Mirene;
Found Object