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Mendocino County Today: February 18, 2013

HUMBOLDT COUNTY POLICE recently found a small cave filled with more than 100 firearms, 117 pounds of marijuana, stolen vehicles and $12,000 in cash. The…

Mendocino County Today: February 17, 2013

LETTER OFTHE WEEK: SHE'S AVAILABLE Editor, I'm sure most of the population of the world, including the majority of Catholics, are unaware that the college…

Mendocino County Today: February 16, 2013

MICHAEL TOMS of New Dimensions Radio has died from diabetes at age 72. Toms cashed in on the national narcissism known as the “consciousness movement,”…

Mendocino County Today: February 15, 2013

THURSDAY MORNING'S PRESS DEMOCRAT contained a minor masterpiece of grammatical Stalinism followed by Nice Person Stalinism, Mendo style. Discussing the hiring of former Willits City…

Mendocino County Today: February 14, 2013

ONLINE DATING. By Jeff Costello Am I admitting this? Yes, I guess so. I've been married (using the term loosely) twice, have four grown kids…

Grunting & Punting

The first bad sign is Tuesday before the game. Speaking before a tangle of sweaty flesh and Japanese electronics plastered with the corporate logos of…

Cupid’s Mark

On Sunday, the tenth, I attended the Roundtable at the Grange Hall, sponsored by the Anderson Valley Historical Society (part of their Annual Meeting), with…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And what better place to get things rolling along than to wish…

The Twinkie Defense,The Pope & Jonestown

Dan White’s Twinkie Defense spurred my decision to move to California. I'd vacationed in Berkeley and had headed home to Iowa. I boarded at SFO…

The Military-Football Complex

The Military-Football Complex becomes more sinister every year. One should never be fooled into thinking the apogee of cynicism has been reached when the first…

Pass The Ball, Kobe

When I lived in Seattle in 1977, I played basketball almost every day in a gym at Seattle University, the alma mater of the great Lakers star Elgin Baylor who took the Seattle Chieftains (now the Redhawks) all the way to the NCAA championship game in 1958 before turning pro that same year. As a resident of Seattle, I was invited to use the gym and swimming pool of that esteemed university for a small annual fee, which made me feel like the luckiest guy in the world.

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