Prohibition ’37: Anslinger’s Testimony
Continued from last week’s AVA —the House Ways and Means Committee Hearing at which the prohibition of marijuana was considered by Congress. Narration by Fred Gardner. * * * DOUGHTON: Mr. Anslinger,...
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As noted in my earlier article “Big Timber,” logging was a major commercial activity in Anderson Valley for more than a century and had two distinct eras; the 1850s to 1920s, and the late 1940s to...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: May 2, 2013
THE LAST TWO tree sitters at the Willits Bypass have come down from their nests. Jean Weilbach, 23, of Fort Bragg, who’d called herself “Crow” and an Oregon woman who called herself “Owl” returned to...
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NAZI ERRATA AVA, While reading The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhellm Keitel, Oberkommando der Wehmacht under Adolf Hitler in World War Two I came across the attached passage from his book. Keitel wrote...
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Mendocino County Today: May 3, 2013
THE MEETING to discuss Mendo street people seems to have embarrassed the Mendocino Village people who called it. DAVID GURNEY WRITES: “On Monday, April 29, Albert Morales wrote on the MCN Announcement...
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The next time you venture to Mendocino you’ll want to step inside Frankie’s Creamery. If you have never been to Frankie’s, what’s wrong with you? — ice cream from Cowlick’s, good pizza, all sorts of...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: May 4, 2013
TODAY’S TOUR BRINGS US TO SAN JOSE: Between the splendor of Santana Row and the wretchedness of these tent cities, there is the ordinary San Jose of tacky strip malls and mostly pleasant looking...
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Mendocino County Today: May 5, 2013
DUDE FEST 2013. Most of Saturday’s Boonville BeerFest drinkers were young white people. Veteran festers said attendance seemed to be up, traffic down, this year. Not much rowdiness inside. Reddick The...
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Mendocino County Today: May 6, 2013
JUST IN FROM THE REFORMATION PRAYER NETWORK: How the Prayer Network Sees Mendocino County. * * * History Mendocino County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of...
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Mendocino County Today: May 7, 2013
Burke WITH THE NEWS that the first major sport professional athlete has come out as gay you probably don’t know there’s a local angle to pro hoopster Jason Collins’ brave announcement. Back aways there...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: May 8, 2013
LESS THAN A YEAR after giving their popular and competent CEO Ray Hino the boot for trying to avoid bankruptcy, the Coast Hospital Board is now looking for a “permanent replacement” to fill the CEO job...
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A couple months back this column focused on the actions of Officer Craig Guydan of the Fort Bragg Police Department. I belong to a group called Coast Copwatch. Coast Copwatch submitted a formal letter...
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Postcard From The End Of America
Hotel De Anza, San Jose. Courtesy David Sawyer via Flickr. As every story is a meandering road, each road is also a story, or, more accurately, an infinity of stories. An abandoned trail that leads...
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Lost In 11360 Land
Stanley Scott. Stanley Scott almost went to trial on Monday for transportation of marijuana, a violation of section 11360 of the Health & Safety Code. The previous Friday Scott had tried to get the...
View ArticleClarifications & Explanations
John Sakowicz, omni-interested citizen in a county where few people pay close attention to purely local matters, posed an interesting question at the April 23 meeting of the Board of Supervisors....
View ArticleHow Stupid?
“Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.” — William Stafford A recent phone conversation with a friend caused me to comment, “How could they have been so stupid not to...
View ArticleThe Organs Of Houston
Any musician on the road, especially one who plays the organ, frequently confronts the contrast between suburban periphery and urban center—or what’s left of it. Typically the best instruments are in...
View ArticleThe High Cost Of Pot Clean-Up
Environmentally harmful marijuana production has again been documented, this time before the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, and a state official has estimated that it will cost...
View ArticlePoisons To Rethink
Round-Up® (Glyphosate) The myth that glyphosate disappears harmlessly soon after application is misleading. Glyphosate kills plants by chelating the same minerals vital to all life, which is why it has...
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Mendocino County Today: May 9, 2013
CONDOR By Will Parrish On the morning of Friday, May 2nd, the newest tree sit in Little Lake Valley arose in an Oregon ash grove just east of Highway 101, roughly a mile north of Willits High School....
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