Three things have bothered me about this panic-demic from the beginning: One was the realization that the reaction to the novel coronavirus was far greater…
Posts published in “Day: May 6, 2020”
Dr. Noemi Mimi Doohan, Mendocino’s missing in action public health officer, released the fourth health officer order Friday April 24. The new order makes a couple of pointless princess and pea modifications
Even though the nights have been quieter, I have been dreaming more vividly. Across the self-isolated populace there are reports of widespread nightmares—stress, fear, change…
Berkeley, CA – May 4, 2020 “If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with.” Thus spoke then California Governor Ronald Reagan to a…
As the world turns it turned to an odd coincidence for me last week
National figures and national issues take up most of the hot air, but most actual government we experience is local. Right now that experience is…
Apparently Mendocino County’s crack financial overseers are not very concerned about the County’s increasingly strained fiscal situation stemming from the shutdown of major segments of…
Spring is popping now with a ferocious energy that can only remind the sullenly sequestered masses that life is going on without them. Every living…
These days, citizen journalists are almost everywhere reporting on the ebb and flow of the virus, from Seattle and San Francisco to Chicago and New York
White men first set eyes on Round Valley on an April day. Promptly they killed a couple score of the people who had been living…
There is nothing more frustrating to a local historian than finding an artifact and not being able to figure where the heck it came from,…