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Fooling Most of the People

The week-long trial of Edward Starski, Esq, and his former client/father-in-law/co-conspirator and co-defendant, Larry Cornett, ended in guilty verdicts for both of them last Friday. They were charged...

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Play Ball

The day before Opening Day of Baseball Season 2015, Lon Simmons died at the age of ninety-one. Lon and his broadcasting partner Russ Hodges were the San Francisco Giants radio announcers when I was a...

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Turning Down the Noise

Last Friday morning, Judge Richard Henderson opened Mark Scaramella’s frost fan temporary injunction hearing with the usual pro forma, judicial assurance that he'd be fair: “I know that many of you in...

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Two Views: Another Big Skunk Train Tunnel Collapse

A Reader Writes: Almost 200 feet of the Skunk Train tunnel has collapsed! Almost a month ago! This time on the west end. A couple years ago it was on the east end. Luckily for the owners it didn't...

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Letters (Apr 15, 2015)

A campaign to end intolerable levels of nocturnal noise entered a new phase in Anderson Valley today, as a citizens group called the Anderson Valley Red Eyes announces the Campaign for Quiet Nights.

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Mendocino Talking: Katy Tahja 

You must sometime experience the irrepressible charm and extensive knowledge of Katy Tahja if only to stand around pretending to look at the books of the Gallery Bookshop in the town of Mendocino while...

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Bird’s Eye View (Apr 15, 2015)

Free Fox Terrier. 8 years old, Hateful little bastard. Bites. … Free puppies. Mother is a Kennel Club registered German shepherd; father is a Super Dog, able to leap tall fences with ease. … Cows and...

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The Stony Lonesome: It Gets Worse?

It was a bad day. A monumentally unpleasant, seriously discommoding, entirely disagreeable sort of day. In the Bad Day annals of the Bad Day pantheon, it occupied an honored spot on a tasteful display,...

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Bear Lincoln Talks About the Murder of Belle Rodriguez

LINCOLN: These are the facts as I know them. Belle Rodriguez was my niece. She was 21 years old. She was killed on May 25 of last year. She was a straight A student in high school. She was the...

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California’s Thirsty Wine-Grapes

In the San Joaquin Valley heartland town of Livingston, located along Highway 99 between Turlock and Merced, the United States' most lucrative wine corporation, E&J Gallo, operates the world's...

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Water Or Wine?

“California Puts Mandatory Curbs on Water Use” reports the April 2 New York Times long article at the top of the front-page. “Steps to Confront Record-Setting Drought,” the sub-headline reads. The...

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Questions Mount About Pot Growers Association

While the Mendocino County Small Farmers Association, a marijuana group of unclear purpose, has made claims it is also a non profit group, The Willits News could not locate any such registration and a...

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Flirting with History

What follows is unclassified. At least as far as I know. It comes from my fading memory and the so-called "open literature." The connections, if any, are pure speculation on my part. This train of...

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Devil Doll! [video]

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Heavy Weather

In Upstate New York the long winter, even harsher than last, has been washed away by torrential rains. This morning at the Ithaca Falls the muddy floodwaters have risen to the walls of the wide gorge,...

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Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Apr 16, 2015

Strike Two; Wildflower Show; Plant Sale; Tentative Agreement; Hotel Pause; AV Weekend; California Novels; Lady Prez; Yesterday's Catch; College Shuffle; Whistleblower Interview; Election Tampering;...

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Stop The Winery Racket! How To Fight Noise!

A guide to shutting up illegal noisemakers no matter how overpriced their crappy wine is. See also: the Anarchist's Cookbook.

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Mendocino County Today: Friday, Apr 17, 2015

Rural Rebellion; Feather Finding; Lower Lawyers; Brown Down; Yesterday's Catch; Gualala Redwoods; Costco Hearing; LakeMendo Outflow; Reforming BID; Palestinian Abuse; Taxes; Morning Sweep; Virtual...

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150,000 Chileans Take To Streets; World Continues To Wake Up

Riot cops attack massive demonstration against corruption and in favor of free education.

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Amazonian Tribe Strips Then Whips Illegal Loggers

Indian warriors resort to modest violence to safeguard dwindling slice of the world’s largest rain forest.

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