What to Expect if Adventist Health Comes to the Mendocino Coast
So the Adventist advance team has come to town and made a number of vague proposals. It's hard to know what to…
The Summer of Apollo 11
The fast approaching 50th anniversary of the successful launch, landing upon the Moon, and recovery of Apollo 11 this week seems an…
NORML’s Deputy Director Speaks Volumes
The National Association for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)— which was founded in 1970 by Keith Stroup and that now has…
President Trump’s Performance Review
To paraphrase former San Francisco Mayor and former California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown in a recent San Francisco Chronicle column, “From now…
Two Mendo Kids Run Off to Join the Circus
The world, filled as it is with war, poverty, corrupt officialdom and all manner of skullduggery, doesn’t often give us reporters the…
Eureka, 2011
Eureka has a steamy, half starved look, especially late in the year from the second story as I turn to my right…
Songs of State
Other than the basic press blurbs, I could find no detailed reports of the music performed at the recent state banquet held…
The Road Back
Although my supervisorial candidacy ended abruptly in calamity as I was struck by a near fatal hemorrhagic stroke on June 26 of…
AIDS & Medical Marijuana
Dennis Peron is the Rosa Parks of the medical marijuana movement, the one who would not move to the back of the…
Small Thoughts At Large (June 27, 1967)
A distinguished magazine asked me to write about San Francisco's irresistible attraction for hippies and beatniks. I declined the offer for two…
The Sound of Skyscrapers
The attacks of September 11, 2001 reinstated for more than a decade the Empire State Building as the highest structure in New…
Letter to a Wife-Beater
Break the cycle—Does anyone wonder how I became some sort of authority on the behavior patterns of the gutless wonders to smack…