The Stony Lonesome: Leaving Wildwood
A spokesman for one of the police departments currently under scrutiny for summarily executing illegal lane-changers had this to say in his trigger-happy officer's defense: "Our number-one priority is...
View ArticleA Horse Walks Into A Bar…
Garberville's Blue Room Bar has a sign on their front door reading, “No Patchouli”. The 'necky' older crowd of loggers, cowboys and country folk seem to find peaceful solace together inside the Blue...
View ArticleHow Brits Secured Whistleblower Data
How The Guardian's top-secret Edward Snowden's documents were destroyed.
View ArticleGerman Robot Teaches Itself To Cook Pizza
Intelligent machine uses YouTube and WikiHow to acquire culinary skills.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thurs., Aug 27, 2015
COAST HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES GET ONE MORE YEAR by Malcolm Macdonald The Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) has reached agreement with its employees union. The union ratified the contract proposal,...
View ArticleBaggy Pants & A Bicycle
At night the band would play paso dobles in the square. When it was time for the tuba solo, the audience became quiet and in the absolute quiet the song of the cuckoo could be heard from amidst the...
View ArticleA Sin To Stay Down: A Boont Noir (Chapter 3)
Behind the crumbling Anderson Valley High School, Billy Lee held a scuffed football on a weedy field that resembled an over-grazed cow pasture. It wasn’t going to seed, so much as becoming a miniature...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of a Bitcoin King
Mark Karpeles was the emperor of bitcoin. Then a half-billion dollars vanished from his exchange.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Fri., Aug.28, 2015
NON-RESPONSIVE County Counsel Doug Losak, the perfect choice to prepare a non-response, prepared the Supes non-response to the Grand Jury's well-documented blast at the perennially troubled performance...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sat., Aug.29, 2015
A READER WRITES: The AVA covers the issues regarding the Coast Hospital frequently, not so much coverage of the Adventist Hospital in Ukiah. [Ed note: Coast Hospital is a public hospital with an...
View ArticleThe Rama: Indigenous People of Nicaragua
Deep in the remote Reserva Biológica Indio Maíz live the Rama, the Guardians of the Forest.
View ArticleA Woman’s Creepy Experience
A woman writes: "I grew up in New Mexico and was always very into the outdoors, hiking, camping, rock climbing, etc. One summer when I was 19 I went on a 4 day/3 night camping trip near my parents'...
View ArticleOil Goons Threaten Peaceful Protesters [video]
Behold the arrogance of criminal corporations who will gladly murder the planet for marble pissoirs and bespoke marital aids.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, Aug 30, 2015
Technical Difficulties; Odd Exchange; FB Earthquakes; Janice Owings; FB Quarterback; Tom McBride; Ukiah Dental; Mendo Bistro; Hippie Pope; Football Practice; Marijuana Bills; Vulgar American; AVHS...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, Aug 31, 2015
Unnecessary Software; Street People; Sunset; Fan Dive; Yoga Classes; FB History; Raiders; Nude Tastings; Flyer Birthday; Yesterday's Catch; Wildfire Myths; American Ignorance; Demoncracy; Mass Shootings
View ArticleHospital Board Crossing Swords
There exists a distinct rift within the Board of Directors of Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH). The divide between new physician board members William Rohr and Peter Glusker and holdovers Tom...
View ArticleCatastrophic Flooding in the Delta?
If the levees go, so does the water for 25 million Californians.
View ArticleHillary Emails Released Into Wild
And just like when she talks, no one cares. Except Goldman Sachs and Oprah's left nut.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, Sep 1, 2015
A READER WRITES: The AVA covers the issues regarding the Coast Hospital frequently, not so much coverage of the Adventist Hospital in Ukiah. [Ed note: Coast Hospital is a public hospital with an...
View ArticleAlbion River Bridge Investigation
Community Meeting to be held by Department Of Toxic Substances Control on Sept. 10 at the Albion Elementary School about DTSC's initial investigation of the Albion River bridge. We would like the...
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