Jami Ganz is a breaking news reporter with an additional focus on entertainment for the New York Daily News.

Captain Joshua House and Angleina’s Team # 1 had a problem, the team was short a player and facing Captain Dan Casteel and Noyo River Grill Team # 2. The Grill Team leads Angelina’s ...

A shrinking number of Californians live in poverty. But the improvement is much too slow. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed the latest “supplemental” poverty measurements from the Census Bureau. These ...

When’s the last time you asked someone for directions? And by someone I mean a live person, another human being you talked to ...

Reverse sneezing is generally an innocuous event, but dog owners witnessing it for the first time often find it very ...

In 2023, attorney and law professor Cliff Sloan published a fascinating portrait of the Supreme Court during World War II, “The Court at War.” As it did so many institutions, the war changed both ...

When the “outgoing” is greater than the “incoming”, a deficit arises.  In political discussion, this usually refers to the US fiscal deficit, which has risen from $5.7T in ...

Reprinted from the March 6, 2003, Mendocino Beacon by Chuck Bush According to the late Charlotte Hoak, daughter of one of the first settlers in Comptche, the town was named after Compatche, a Pomo ...

Until August” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who wrote the Nobel prize-winning novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is the story of Ana Magdalena Bach. Every year, Ana lays a bouquet of gladioli on ...

The Mendocino Area Parks Association (Mendo Parks) hired a new executive director in August.  Sid Garza-Hillman is a long-time resident of the area and has been active in both the planning and ...