I once described my family as “six abrasive oddballs” led by “parents from Neptune and three siblings I never knew.  All the kids ignored each other except when tormenting younger ones;  meanwhile ...

U.S. Representatives Jared Huffman (D-CA-02) and John Curtis (R-UT-03) have introduced the Alex Gate Safety Act to prevent tragic accidents from poorly-designed, ill-maintained or faulty gates.

Last Saturday, dozens of volunteers and an equal number of cars, trucks and vans crowded the parking lot at the Ukiah Food Bank. It was the first of two holiday delivery days. Members of the ...

You know the old saying, “Great Minds think alike.” Well, I’ve discovered that comedian Bill Maher is a comrade-in-arms when it comes to explaining how the Democrats got their asses kicked by D.J.

By tradition (and also because it’s so easy), the first column of December, along with the last of the year (or the first of next year, depending on how the dates line up) is a look back at the ...

Operating a small non-profit agency is filled with highs and lows.  Earlier in the year we realized the old food bank truck was finally beyond repair.  It felt like the family dog ...

This morning as I read the Ukiah Daily Journal, when I came to the editorial cartoon by Stahler calling Trump’s cabinet picks STUPID and showing Trump smirking as if he had gotten ...

In the middle of the 18th century, Great Britain undertook a deportation program in the New World with many of the elements of President-elect Donald Trump’s ...

For many years two Ukiah churches have served as Central Drop for Lake and Mendocino Counties for the annual Operation Christmas Child (OCC), where churches fill shoeboxes with items for children.

I was sitting alone in a dark corner of a bar when the atmospheric river washed out the power. I couldn’t even see myself in the bar-back mirror. Just within earshot were the barman and an ...

Mendocino National Forest officials announced plans to lift the OHV wet weather trail closures on the Upper Lake and Grindstone Ranger Districts as of Nov. 28, Thanksgiving Day. In a press release ...

Jurors will likely never decide whether the president-elect is criminally responsible for his attempts to cling to power ...