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Mendocino County Today: June 12, 2013
BYPASS SCAM REVEALED Thursday, June 13, 2013. 7pm. Ukiah United Methodist Church. 270 North Pine Street, Ukiah. T H U R S D A Y - - In Willits, the California Department of Transportation is in the...
View ArticleParis, Continued
Ask almost anyone, anywhere in the world, about a place they’d like to visit, and chances are “Paris” will come up sooner rather than later. (Full disclosure: Please do not assume that the author of...
View ArticlePetit Teton
“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anyone could ever want to own.” — Andy Warhol * * * There was no plan, well, no real plan, when we bought land in the Anderson...
View ArticleThe Greatest Tempest In History
The rolling storm that is Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring thundered through its hundredth anniversary last Wednesday, the 29th of May. I spent most of the day at 39,000 feet, high above global festivities...
View ArticleInto The Mystic
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” — Chief Seattle On several...
View ArticleRemembering Nellie
“For mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face…” — William Blake * * * She could be seen nearly any day of the week, sitting on the the sidewalk outside the market or liquor store. She would usually...
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Prohibition ’37: Vinson For The Prosecution
Vinson & McCormack Continued from last week’s AVA, the Congressional hearing at which marijuana prohibition was debated. The witness, Dr. William Woodward of the American Medical Association,...
View ArticleRiver Views
Fifty-five years ago the Giants moved from New York to San Francisco. I was four years old and occasionally hid in our large clothes hamper to pray for Willie Mays to hit a home run. Don’t ask me why,...
View ArticleOut On A Limb
There is one supreme and universal law of human relations in all its manifestations, social, political, economic, cultural: people create no end of mischief in the hours when they are not sleeping. Any...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. A great sadness descended over many folks in the Valley last week with the tragic news of the death of 21-year old Raul Malfavon,...
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Mendocino County Today: June 13, 2013
“POSSIBLY MULTIPLE TIMES”? Did the camo-Mex shoot at the deputy or didn’t he? Apparently, and more than once, too. SHERIFF’S PRESS RELEASE: On June 11, 2013 at about 8:36am Special Agents from the...
View ArticleValley People
RAUL MALFAVON, 21, of Ray’s Road, Philo, was found dead Thursday morning about 6. Malfavon, an unmarried single man who reportedly lived with his sister, is presumed to have hanged himself.Subscribe...
View ArticleOff The Record
HAMBURG CLAIMS DAMAGES FROM THE COUNTY Dan Hamburg’s Claim Against Mendocino County [Attorney Barry Vogel's Letterhead] May 28, 2013 To: Thomas Parker, Mendocino County Counsel Re: Claim Against...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
GRANDFATHERING SLUDGE Editor, Mendo County Supervisors under cover of darkness tried to grandfather sewage sludge composting.Subscribe now to access our entire site—only $25 for 1 year. For login info,...
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Mendocino County Today: June 14, 2013
SO THIS IS CIVILIZATION. Spent a day in Edinburgh, concluding that if Americans were still teachable we could learn how to manage cities from the Scots. For example, the center of San Francisco — and...
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Mendocino County Today: June 15, 2013
LAST WEEK the Santa Rosa Press Democrat ran a story titled, “Winegrowers facing labor hurdles as harvest season approaches.” The story began “Grape growers and farmers throughout the state are facing a...
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Mendocino County Today: June 16, 2013
AMERICA BEING A NEW COUNTRY, and now a fragged people who don’t know their neighbors let alone honor anything resembling the community we once knew, ancient Selkirk is a reminder, to this American, of...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: June 17, 2013
A BIG ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP is rumored to have offered $300k to the Skunk Line to repair and restore the collapsed tunnel in return for a conservation easement on the railroad right of way (or the part...
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Mendocino County Today: June 18, 2013
STOP THE PRESSES! In a hard hitting lead story by Brett Wilkerson in Saturday’s Santa Rosa Press Democrat called Wineries Court Gay Customers, Wilkerson begins, “Los Angeles couple Brian Chield and...
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Mendocino County Today: June 19, 2013
IN SUNDAY’S UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL, Tommy Wayne Kramer conflates hippies and “the left.” He said the hippies have stopped lots of cool progress like rural bypasses erected by those prodigies of...
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