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Posts published in December 2020

Liz Barney Answers Her Critics

Introduction: Alicia Bales is program director at KZYX, Philo, a publicly-funded, tax exempt fm radio station. Ms. Bales is leading a slander campaign to defame Liz Evangelatos Barney, a social media public information officer who…

Valley People (December 16, 2020)

IT'S STILL so dry out there that we weren't surprised to see a CalFire spotter plane make a wide, slow circle around the Anderson Valley a summery afternoon last week a little before 3. THAT…

Mendocino County Today: December 15, 2020

Borges/Gurr Ruling | Vaccines Arrive | Light Rain | 28 Cases | Surf Advisory | Flicker | Noyo Nepots | Laytonville Cowboys | Richardson Grove | Early Willits | AVA Tribute | Police Reports | Save Pillsbury | Big Redwood | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Long Boat | Usal 1910 | Jail Limbo | Dead Enders | Underground Lines | Covelo Inn | Ludicrous Numbers | Babe Advice | Bureaucratic Fog | Willits Queen | le Carre Memoir | Save Gas | Comments | Rust & Stardust | Online Researchers | Live Big | Progressive Discontent

Joe Munson Meets the Soda Creek Store

I have always thought of myself as an outlaw, not a criminal and as someone who tries not to be corrupt. Usually, people either run to me or run from me. That’s been as true…

Mendocino County Today: December 14, 2020

Dry Today | 38 New Cases | Trash Talk | Be Kind | Mama Linda | Little River | Forgotten Children | Manchester Cemetery | Book Flop | Laytonville Volunteers | Dysfunction County | Casparvision | Long Stop | Treasure Hut | Ed Notes | Rockport History | Yesterday's Catch | Stones Mob | Barbarian Bedtime | Petulant Loser | No Shortcuts | Electoral Coup | Gualala Cemetery | Phil Linz | Game Rigged | Pella Memories | Founding Pranksters

Continental Cuisine

All emergency staff meetings at the tony French Laundromat bistro require mandatory attendance, but the latest meeting announcement was a picture of existential urgency. The first hint was that the meeting was called by the…

Mendocino County Today: December 13, 2020

Rain/Snow | 22 New Cases | Liz Responds | Caspar Creek | Incense Cedars | Pet Audi | Willits Miracle | Abandoned Mill | Richardson Grove | Breezewood USA | Agenda Items | Yesterday's Catch | Blowhole | Replacing Drake | Up Creek | Singing Biden | Likely Outcome | Sloop Upriver | Out There | Missed Zodiac | Pay Up | Killer Message | Crab Boat | American Stress | Rallies Upside | Fascism Podcast | Chip Off | Marco Radio | Found Object

Scams & The City

You'd think government employees, especially high-ranking officials, would feel relatively fortunate. Their salaries are decent and they enjoy job security unavailable in the private sector. And yet, as 2020 ends, five San Francisco department heads…

Letter to the Public

It seems I have inadvertently been making the local news lately and would like to clarify what is true and what isn’t. I’ve been called a bigot, a racist and have been accused of promoting…

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