Every once in a while it’s important to remind people in Comptche that we are outlaws. And we have been that way for quite a while. It is not just hippies growing pot either. Hippies?…
Anderson Valley Advertiser
As an author in the midst of researching a new book on Mendocino County history I found myself perusing the “History of Mendocino County, California.” Written in 1880 by Allen, Bowen & Co. it’s an…
By way of analogy allow me to exaggerate about how to rob a bank without a gun. First, you become an elected official—say, a Mendocino county supervisor. Thus, no need for a firearm. Use your…
The dread sound of Fukushima hardly sets the joyous Christmas bell to ringing. But a recent disc bearing simply that name from the experimental jazz pianist, composer and bandleader Satoko Fujii leading the twelve-piece Orchestra…
Missing Information;
Weather Oracle;
Toxic Abandonment;
Flooded Open;
Sanitation Negotiations;
Little Dog;
Mega Raise;
Willits 1937;
KZYX Answers;
Flimsy Movies;
Pot Bust;
Disaster Info;
Yesterday's Catch;
Lee's Decisions;
Unequal;
Tiny Housing;
Boysen Peak;
Germany;
Train Control;
Pianist Concert;
Amazon Delivery;
Alice Donovan
In the days before the Brown Act passed in 1953, men (and of course they were all men) ran for County supervisor primarily to make sure that their friends and neighbors got fair (or preferential)…
THE SUPERVISORS, in a move that would pay them almost twice as much as the average private sector Mendo working person, voted 4-1 Monday to raise their annual salaries from $61,200 to a startling $85,500, starting next…