“Over the course of the year the farm plays at different cadences, some more uptempo and frenetic, some slow and reflective.”
Author Archives: Kate Maxwell, Publisher Emeritus
Kate Maxwell founded the Mendocino Voice in 2016 along with Adrian Fernandez. She served as publisher until June 2024 when the Mendocino Voice merged with the nonprofit Bay City News Foundation, led by Katherine Ann Rowlands
Posted inPolitics & Government
Open letter to Mendocino County supervisors: new public records fees will cost more than they save
In which we express our concerns that the increased fees for public records and proposed media fund will be a boondoggle.
Posted inAgriculture & Fishing
O’Neill: The days of smoke and tomatoes (column)
“Farming is kind of like a 3-dimensional puzzle; you know what all the pieces look like but you’re never real sure how they all fit together because of changes in weather, pests, labor and marketability.”
Posted inAgriculture & Fishing, Cannabis, Health
O’Neill: On Covid-19 and being out of commission (column)
“It’s a hard set of realizations that if I’m not up to snuff the farm is going to struggle, yet it’s also the baseline of any farm operation; no farmer, no farm.”
Posted inFire & Emergency
Trapped in harm’s way as disasters mount: Hidden Epidemics
Communities stuck on the front lines of the climate crisis need help relocating. The U.S. government isn’t prepared.
This article was produced in partnership with Columbia Journalism Investigations, the Center for Public Integrity and Type Investigations.