Bert: I feel so lucky about doing what I’ve been doing here for the last 20 years because I’ve gotten to meet almost everybody in the Valley and have a really good relationship with people…
Posts published in July 2024
YESTERDAY'S HIGHS: Laytonville 112°, Ukiah 111°, Covelo 110°, Yorkville 107°, Boonville 99°, Fort Bragg 65°, Mendocino 62°, Point Arena 60° VERY HOT and dry weather will continue in the interior all week. A shallow marine…
For endless months we have listened to commentators bellow about the Republican Party being utterly, indisputably broken. It is. But from the first moments of the Biden-Trump debate, it’s been clear to me that my Democratic Party is also pitifully broken.…
Reds — the title of Warren Beatty’s Bohemian/Bolshevik love story that features John Reed and Louise Bryant — is also the title of Maurice Isserman’s new book subtitled, “The Tragedy of American Communism.” Issermam is…
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The state Controller’s Office says Mendocino County Board of Supervisors shoulders significant blame for the chaos gripping county finances. State auditors specifically cite the board’s failure to conduct a “risk assessment” of its controversial consolidation…
If Flaubert was Madame Bovary, then Handel was Partenope. She is the title character of his 1730 opera, a big hit in its time, but then spurned for supposed tawdriness over the ensuing 250 years.…