Propaganda Bill In Congress Could Give America Its Very Own Ministry Of Truth
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By the time this article is read, the California Primary will be history. On Wednesday, political pundits will be steering their follower’s click-throughs and eyeballs toward the dedicated soldiers digging the candidate’s protective political moats,…
Mendocino County Undersheriff Randy Johnson told a packed audience in Laytonville Thursday how to apply for a medical cannabis cultivator’s permit under the Urgency Ordinance passed by the Mendocino Board of Supervisors last month. Johnson…
Marcia came into my office a few days ago and said, “Have you seen the little gnome in Flower Pot Village?”
I thought she might be pulling my leg, since we are not gnome collectors, but lo, clinging with both hands to the edge of a large terra cotta flower pot in the assemblage of flower pots we call Flower Pot Village was a small Caucasian gnome, five-inches-tall, a happy smiling ceramic fellow with a white beard, pointy gold hat, turquoise jacket, brown trousers and black shoes.
Considering that the 2016 election looks like a Dark Age puppet show — Pantalone and La Signora smacking each other with dildos — we forget this spectacle is serious. Rather large matters are at stake,…
JUST IN. Sage Mountainfire has returned to her job at the County Animal Shelter. The long-time Shelter manager was at her desk last Tuesday and will be working part-time for now. LAST MONTH we ran…
ANDERSON VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL graduation is Thursday night, 7pm, at the high school gym. Expect a full house and, we hope, a cool evening. We finally extorted the graduation pictures from mysterious high school procedures,…
New science rooms at the high school? A swimming pool? Are these really among the best ways to spend money at the school? Some would say, “Yes.” Anyway, that may be the result if the new bond issue passes. How about a chalkboard, some stimulating two-way conversation between teachers and students, a little extra sprinkling of discipline and a modicum of student accountability, and homework assignments and tests completed with passing grades?