With President Biden experiencing a return of COVID symptoms, there has been a flurry of news reports on “COVID rebound”. Let’s look at what this…
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In the first of the four volumes of Thomas Nugent’s Grand Tour of 1749, that hefty guidebook required of aristocratic British travelers to the continent,…
Seventy-five years ago, when bulldozers began to be used to log the redwoods, a common practice began of blading logging slash from a landing as…
No one seems to keep a tally of the exact number of storytellers in San Francisco, but there seem to be more of them, at…
Reading Ralph Bostrom’s interesting letter about sailing with the merchant marine service to Curacao, I was reminded of my own experiences with the Seamen's International…
There are trees found only on the coast of Mendocino County. And if that weren’t cool enough, there’s a whole forest of them that can…
If your summer funds or summer energy levels are running a little low this year consider vacationing at home (or almost at home) with a…
In late 2021, it was reported that just over half of all abortions in the United States were done via oral medications. Now these pills…
“Click, click, click,” the room was filled with the repetitive sound of chips ricocheting against one another in rhythmic waves that washed over the players…
The eight televised, three-hour meetings by the House Committee to investigate January 6 are over. There may be more, as early as September. There may…
We’ve seen renditions of the courthouse the State of California is threatening to inflict upon Ukiah, and the project is wrong and wrong. Mendocino County’s…