Nearly every day of Covid-infested 2020, I’ve felt my hope drowned by despair. And every time I went under I asked myself, “What would grandma do?” And she pulled my head back above water. My…
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I was bad. I admit it and I’m sorry. On Thanksgiving, I joined a dozen or so friends and some strangers, too, for a feast. We sat outdoors on a farm. Sadly, we did not…
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Ukiah is a city of 16,000 with a median household income of $47,000. This is what some city employees earn in a year, including benefits, overtime pay, “extra” pay and whatever coins they find under…
A Year in Review: Makahiki / Arrival / Farewell to Max / Working on a Building / Hilo and Kehena / Ed's Party / The Search for Pele's Vagina / Makahiki Redux Makahiki Laurie is up…
Drying Clearing | 40 New Cases | Hospitality Secrets | Dawn | Winter Shelter | Dry Spell | Whorehouse Plaque | Locomotive Samson | Orchard Boondoggles | Converted Tower | Toxic Waste | Humco Yahoos | Yesterday's Catch | Sedition | Lame Duckery | Neil Sheehan | Dock Crane | Movie Suppressors | Whyfor | Bear Food | Impeach Him | Botanical Kids | Location Location | Trump Mistakes | Stand By | Roast Skunk | Two Flags | Willful Denialism | You Again? | Invaders | Trumpers | 10 Years | No Facebook | Fueling Up | Real Conspiracies | Too Deep | Station Misuse | Sowing Division
A year ago this week, I sat in a left corner seat in a school auditorium, watching as presidential candidate Andrew Yang yukked it up with teens at Concord High in New Hampshire. Yang was…
In a recent article in The Atlantic, staff writer, George Packer, published an essay titled “A Political Obituary for Donald Trump.” The subtitle: “The effects of his reign will linger. But democracy survived.” In the…
Brief Interlude | 37 New Cases | AV Vaccinations | Freezer Fiasco | Mendo Surging | Navarro Breaches | Educator Drowned | Albion Mill | Trussed Invader | Shelter Cove | Whetstone Murder | Whale Rock | Systemic Changes | Seen Trudy? | Ed Notes | Statehouses Swarmed | PA Testing | Yesterday's Catch | Biden Baggage | Incompetent Leadership | Liquidation Sale | Sensible Measures | Held Up | Boats | Bales Campaigns | Yesterday's Quotes | Found Object