Pinoleville’s Pot Farm
Heads have been turning and phones have been ringing all weekend, as casual passers-by, cannabis farmers and concerned citizens attempted to discern what they were seeing on a two-acre parcel visible...
View ArticlePot Bad, Wine Good
Let's begin with some Q&A. In the 1990s, runaway cultivation of a mind-altering cash crop led to a spate of illegal surface water diversions from the streams and springs that feed the Russian...
View ArticleJerry Brown to California: “Frack You!”
When it comes to protecting our water and air, Jerry Brown has failed.
View ArticleLetters (Jun 10, 2015)
I read Paul Lambert’s long pompous farewell in last week’s issue. It is good news that “family matters call me and my wife back to Southern California.” Oh dear, really, “Paul”?
View ArticleThirty Years Ago In Willits
When I got back from Mexico at the end of February I was told by my landlord’s son, Bruce Burton, that he and Chris Baldo were taking over the property to mill their redwood and store their poles, and...
View ArticleWater Torture
The unsanitized version goes: “Out West we argue over politics and religion. We kill over water.” Sanitized, it’s: “Out West water flows uphill to money.” Rivers are pots of gold, you see. Rivers are...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, Jun 11, 2015
Loretta's Expenses; Lightning Fires; Gallery Shows; Big Grow; ACLU Luncheon; Wine Bubble; PBS Weedhour; Mo's Town; Local Asphalt; Homefullness; Sewer Matter; Fraud Signs; Tourism Money; Weed Water;...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, Jun 12, 2015
Coate Resigns; Sketchy Incident; Warriors Win; Sequeira Drafted; The Recall; Last Drop; Railroad Case; Mendocino Farms; Slush Bonds; Yesterday's Catch; Lonesome Cry; Fred LaCour; Samoa Mill; Police...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, Jun 13, 2015
KZYX Opportunity; Captain's Notes; Bypass Ruins; Bear Carson; Cannabis Hour; Water Cuts; Prom Pop; Catch of the Day; Black Pretender; Dixie Flyer; Bamboo Art; Zuccotti Ghost; Breaking News
View ArticleModern Snake Oil Hucksters In Utah
Dozens of get-rich-quick schemes—also known as “multi-level marketing”—fill Utah office parks.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, June 14, 2015
Smoke in the Air; County Budget; Claudia Fundraiser; 128 Collisions; Women's Monologues; Catch of the Day; Wanda's Gluckschmerz; Reid; Uppity Waiter; Minutes Whitewash; Critical Reform; See the Light;...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, June 15, 2015
Warriors Run; Budget Clarity; BID & TOT; Wildlife Question; Versatile Attorney; Crumpled Vehicle; Boonville Graduates; Investigating Fraud; Redwood Run; Canseco Distracted; Coate Resignation; Ukiah...
View ArticleChokeholding Scumbag Dennis Hastert
The NAMBLA-esque scandal wilting Dennis Hastert's man-gavel.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, June 16, 2015
River Killers; REMCO Proposals; Concert Going; Intern Sarah; West Paintings; Wooden Cross; Pinot Points; Flower Garden; GP Cleanup; Waugh Diaires; PA Board; Bolinas Graffiti; Wrong Station; Yesterday's...
View ArticleOptions, My Asphalt!
With the summer roadwork season already in swing, conflicting claims about the asphalt production capacity of the county are being aired, while two proposed plants remain in litigation limbo, and a the...
View ArticleValley People (June 17, 2015)
WHEN JIM ROBERTS of the Madrones (Philo) stopped in the other day to drop off a legal ad, I resisted an impulse to jump to my feet to applaud him. Not only has he created a kind of gastro-paradise at...
View ArticleOff the Record (June 17, 2015)
EVERY DAY brings a fresh deluge of catastrophes, but the one in Fort Bragg on October 17th of 2014 is particularly memorable. A deranged man named Michael Bitney, 56, of shifting Oregon addresses,...
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