Off the Record (Oct 14, 2015)
A WOMAN CALLED Monday morning with a sad tale of being ripped off by a particularly slimy attorney called Dan Russo, and was only in mid-tale when her cell phone gave out. I hope Kelly doesn't think I...
View ArticleLetters (Oct 14, 2015)
The Big Surprise. The terminal cancer. The word leaks out. The "goys" bring the Irish whiskey. The Jews smoke and pain pills. All in all it has been a wasted life. I flew off the handle too much. Never...
View ArticleThe Empty Seat Defense
Richard Bolton, Jr. made no attempt — no pretense at all that he was growing all that pot for medical purposes when it was obvious he was growing for tax free cash, and the Mendocino District Attorney...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Oct 14, 2015)
A Three-Dot regular reminds me that two of the current five members of the AV School Board are leaving when their terms end in less than a month. Martha “Marti” Bradford, who, after so many years...
View ArticleWhy Was the AT&T Outage So Bad?
It’s been more than a month since vandals severed AT&T’s fiber optic line in a remote area south of Ukiah, sending untold tens of thousands of customers into an information blackout. (“Untold”...
View ArticleTalen Barton Sentenced To 71 Years To Life
Nineteen-year-old old Talen C. Barton was sentenced Tuesday to 71 years to life in prison for the Laytonville stabbing murders of Coleman Palmieri and his 17-year-old son Teo Palmieri, and for the...
View ArticleValley People (Oct 14, 2015)
THE DEAD MAN in the Yorkville pot patch has been identified as 43-year-old Marcos Bautista of Cloverdale. The forensic autopsy determined Bautista had died as the result of multiple gunshot wounds. THE...
View ArticleSmoky Hike
Nearing mid-October and no end in sight to this drought. The etymological root of the word drought takes us back to the old, Old English term “drug.” Readers can make their own jokes or serious...
View ArticleFin Again—Wake!
We just returned, Marcia and I, from a nine-day journey to Oregon, our motive operandi a visit to my brother and his wife in their new digs in Portland, they among the wave of humanity crashing onto...
View ArticleThe Love Attack
Living in Southern California, you get used to humans visiting atrocities and depredations on one another. What else would you expect from a region that funds and shelters a terrorist organization like...
View ArticlePanther Soccer (Oct 14, 2015)
As the Panthers made the two-plus hour journey to the “wilds” of western Sonoma County to play Tomales last Wednesday afternoon, they were looking to bounce back from two recent morale-sapping defeats....
View ArticleThe Reservoir Stops Here
On the edge of the Yolly Bolly Wilderness, about 15 miles north of the dusty cattle and marijuana town of Covelo, 81-year-old Richard Wilson sits across from me in a ranch house his father constructed...
View ArticleLast Rights
Californians have just won a right that we all hope we will never need to use: The right to physician-assisted dying. Governor Jerry Brown signed California’s End of Life Option Act last week after...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, Oct 15, 2015
Historic Ketch Visit; Searching for Asha; Dem Debate; Animal Rights; Nino Preparations; Environmental Damages; Shrimp Boy Trial; Customer Service; Yesterday's Catch; Imperial Failure; Moeller; American...
View ArticleDeath In Mendo, 1949
Sometimes the museum where I docent gets a donation that opens my eyes with amazement. The “Family Worksheets” for six months from late 1949 into 1950 from a local funeral home came into the museum’s...
View ArticleAnother View Of The Idyllic 50s
I read with interest the online comment on growing up with the simple pleasures of small town Ohio in the 50s and 60s. Real eggs, a milkman and all the rest. There is something to be said for this,...
View ArticleBang, You’re Dead
Apropos of the recent Roseburg, Oregon, school massacre that left nine dead, President Obama said, “We’re going to have to come together and stop these things from happening.” That’s an understandable...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, Oct 16, 2015
Asha Missing; Construction Accident; FB Burglary; Golden Rule; White Art; Disposable Backtrack; Felony Assault; Pacific Coast; Endless War; Creek Hikes; Sammy; Yesterday's Catch; Capitalistic Agenda;...
View ArticleDoctors And Armored Tanks Without Borders
Coalition investigators ram crime scene with heavy tank.
View ArticleBrown Signs New Med-Pot Regs
Governor Jerry Brown has signed the package of bills known as the Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act. The very name implies that the herb is dangerous. Two weeks ago Jeffrey Hergenrather, MD, a...
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