Affiliation First
The most significant news out of the Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) Board of Directors meeting on August 29 was the suspension…
PG&E Returns
Last July 16 PG&E sent a youngish guy named Matt Pender, PG&E’s “Director, Community Wildfire Safety Program Program Management Office,” to a…
Heath Goes Shopping
If somebody gets your credit card and goes on a shopping spree with it there’s not a lot the law can do…
Dead Trees & Pot
A woman who lives in Mendocino County now but was raised in Oregon, called me after reading last week’s column on the…
Off the Record (September 4, 2019)
KEN RETZER is an old ballplayer, a catcher with the Washington Senators…
Valley People (September 4, 2019)
WHAT THE HECK IS CALTRANS doing on the west side of Highway 128 opposite Lindsay Clow's place? Destroying a goodly swathe of…
Measure V and Exemption
Measure V was a voter-approved 2016 local ballot measure that mandated that trees killed by herbicides left standing for 90 days were…
I Deserve an Apology!
On Wednesday, August 14, I was coming from the Senior Center in Covelo with my senior lunch. At about 11:45am I sat…
County Notes (August 28, 2019)
LAST TUESDAY the Supervisors approved their responses to the Grand Jury about both the management of the county and Measure B, the…
This is a Bad One…
Many years ago, 1974 I believe, the Redwood Peanut mounted on a flatbed led a caravan of logging trucks around and around…
Valley People (August 28, 2019)
We heard the other day that the more active of our youth are jumping off the Greenwood Bridge…
Off the Record (August 28, 2019)
The outside media and the Press Democrat will never give her the credit, but it was HumCo's intrepid Kym Kemp…