For the past two weeks, we’ve been discussing a series of events where Board Chair Maureen Mulheren attempted to justify violations of the Brown Act, California’s Open Meeting Law. I’ll provide the punch-line now: I…
Posts published in May 2024
Last Saturday and Sunday from 10-4 downtown Elk was hopping as their 35th Annual Rummage Sale unfolded at the Greenwood Community Center. Sponsored by the Greenwood Civic Club all proceeds were earmarked for student scholarships,…
THE COUNTY MUSEUM is located in Willits where artifacts of our unreal history are stored and displayed, including that tribute not all that long ago to hippies with no mention of Flower Child-ism’s downside HIPPIES,…
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If you want to understand the turmoil in the County’s Public Health and Behavioral Health departments, you won’t get far listening to comments at Supervisors meetings. On the one hand you have the line employees…
GLORIA ABBOTT It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of Gloria Faye Abbott (Ornbaun). Gloria passed away peacefully in her sleep on Monday, May 13th, after a long battle of Dementia.…
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Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness. By Robert Aquinas McNally. University of Nebraska Press; May 1, 2024 “Only to the white man was nature a…
Somewhere around mid-November the Y2K whimpering died down out of sheer exhaustion. Humboldt County [where Cockburn lived at the time of this writing] is calm. A couple of weeks ago I asked the amiable Jim,…