She wrote about politics and the patriarchy as a left-wing writer, then alienated her compatriots with exposés critical of the Black Panthers and the environmental movement. Kate Coleman, an iconoclastic Bay Area journalist who began…
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The Apple Hall at the Fairgrounds was beautiful: long runners decked with fresh flowers on every table, carefully assembled themed displays, hundreds of photos of Tyler living life to the fullest with his young family.…
For decades “tear it down” has been a popular local mantra surrounding the Palace Hotel, Ukiah's most significant historic landmark. Community naysayers say it is time to level the 19th-century structure, listed on the National…
That recent incident with the door falling out of a Boeing passenger jet in flight was attributed to “missing bolts.” According to the NTSB the door had been removed to repair some rivets; after the…
In the fall of 1851, three young men, trailing a wounded elk, walked out on the rocky point above the spot where Boonville now stands, and looked with delighted eyes at the prospect of a…
Where the hell is Peter Plate? And who the hell is he? His editor, Dan Simon, calls him a “proletarian novelist,” but that doesn’t seem right. The author of ten novels, all of them set…
When the Kelley House Museum in Mendocino was founded 50 years ago researchers here found that people loved a good shipwreck story and wanted to share their version of a story told to them by…