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Alpha One On Patrol
The morning oozed in gray and wet. The monsoon sky at high tide. Clouds so wet, so low that you can feel them cold on your neck. Push off your cover. A banana leaf. Banana leaf and the clammy rubber...
View ArticleOff The Record
WITHIN AN HOUR of the Boston bombs, the conspiracy creeps were on the internet where one of the creepiest of all, Alex Jones, predictably claimed that our government had done it. Jones called the...
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Mendocino County Today: April 19, 2013
IT WAS EXACTLY ten on a recent Wednesday morning. I was on the south side of California Street waiting to board the 44, which would carry me across the park to the N Judah line. The N stops directly in...
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Mendocino County Today: April 20, 2013
ENTITLEMENT TANKS? Tanks But No Tanks In response to Ms. Cooney’s gripping drama That Kemgas allegedly inflected her with such trauma So as not to burden you busy readers Like keeping up with the...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: April 21, 2013
OBAMACARE BAFFLES MENDO by Mark Scaramella On Monday, April 8, the Mendocino Board of Supervisors listened to two and a half excruciating hours of impenetrable categories, inclusions, exclusions,...
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Mendocino County Today: April 22, 2013
THE GOLDEN SHORE, by David Helvarg is subtitled “California’s Love Affair with the Sea.” This is an informal and very interesting history of the state examined from its shoreline development. If a...
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Mendocino County Today: April 23, 2013
ACCORDING TO the District Attorney’s statistics, 21 people have been sentenced to serve their prison time in the local jail under “realignment” some for multiple offenses. The 21 include people...
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Mendocino County Today: April 24, 2013
SHEILA DAWN TRACY reports on KZYX for the AVA. KZYX, for those of you who don’t know and are probably better off not knowing, is a tax exempt, pseudo-public radio station dominated by two petty,...
View ArticleRiver Views
Mendocino Redwood Company remains chained to the practices of its predecessor-in-interest, Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, 15 years after purchasing more than 200,000 acres of Mendocino County...
View ArticleLaw Abiding Citizen
To live outside the law you must be honest. — Bob Dylan I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law. — Woody Guthrie Send lawyers, guns and money, the shit has...
View ArticleProhibition ’37, Part 2
A tragicomedy featuring the US Treasury Department, industries reliant on hemp, and the American Medical Association. Continued from last week’s AVA. JENKINS: It seems to me your only burden is to...
View ArticleThe Rambo Cocktail
Evan Morris was sentenced last week for a crime spree that ended last fall at the Forest Club bar in downtown Ukiah. Morris was already on probation for domestic abuse and driving under the influence,...
View ArticleObamacare Baffles Mendo
On Monday, April 8, the Mendocino Board of Supervisors listened to two and a half excruciating hours of impenetrable insurance jargon. If you’re inclined to rhetorical self-abuse you’ll be ecstatic at...
View ArticleTop 9 Adventure Travel Hoaxes
Traveling may be thrilling, exhausting, dangerous, mind-opening and, occasionally, boring. But more than anything else, going to faraway places is easier talked about than done. Thus, we find history...
View ArticleSongs Of Tax Resistance
A handful of tax resisters lingered outside of the post office in downtown Ithaca on Monday into the early evening when I walked by, my return already filed electronically earlier that day. The...
View ArticleBlame
“Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It’s almost always the wrong response.” — Lawrence Summers Speaking of speculators and the Greeks, hundreds of...
View ArticleChief Pah-LINE-ah
Nobody in the storied history of the great Oregon Territory (and State) has more places named after him than the Northern Paiute renegade chief spelled Paulina. Hereabouts there’s a Paulina prairie and...
View ArticleCritical Care For Ambulances?
The Anderson Valley Ambulance Service is a local, non-profit service staffed by volunteer EMTs, providing medical transport to Valley residents for the past 50 years or so. Initially, transport was by...
View ArticleApotcalypse Now
On April 20th each year, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park are arguably our beleaguered planet’s ground zero for what is loosely referred to “cannabis culture.” Why that...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
ENTITLEMENT TANKS In response to Ms. Cooney’s gripping drama That Kemgas allegedly inflected her with such trauma So as not to burden you busy readers Like keeping up with the exploits of our...
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