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Mendocino County Today: July 19, 2013
ANOTHER REASON not to shop at Walgreens. The Starbucks of drug stores is refusing to sell the current edition of Rolling Stone because it has a picture of crazy-boy Boston bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,...
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Bravery Beyond Belief
When I was in the Air Force in the 1970s I had access to classified information about the Soviet Union’s air defenses, logistics support systems, likely invasion scenarios in Eastern Europe, military...
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Mendocino County Today: July 20, 2013
MOTHER FACES JAIL TIME after allowing toddler access to meth, alcohol. Delvalle A Boonville mother who admitted to allowing her toddler son to ingest life-threatening amounts of methamphetamine and...
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Mendocino County Today: July 21, 2013
RANDOM OPINIONS. I like railroads as much as the next guy, and I see no reason other than the usual pettifogging gangs of career officeholders and time-serving public bureaucrats that a high-speed...
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Glass Beach: Long Time Passing
Over the weekend the kiddo, who is now the ripe ol’ age of seven and I had some extra time after playing and before dinner. I asked him if he’s like to go to the Pudding Creek Trestle or to Glass...
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Mendocino County Today: July 22, 2013
RECOMMENDED READING: “A Colossal Wreck: A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption and American Culture” by Alexander Cockburn. Cockburn, a frequent visitor to Boonville, was the last of the...
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Mendocino County Today: July 23, 2013
GLASS BEACH: LONG TIME PASSING By Jessica Ehlers Over the weekend the kiddo, who is now the ripe ol’ age of seven and I had some extra time after playing and before dinner. I asked him if he’s like to...
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Mendocino County Today: July 24, 2013
IT’S ALMOST HERE! Not-So-Simple Living Fair 2013 is in just a few days. We’re ready for you, so make your way to the Mendocino County Fairgrounds in Boonville July 26 – 28 (workshops begin at 10am...
View ArticleThe CHP’s Pot DUI
The California Highway Patrol has plenty of critics, and a crop of new young officers has appeared in Mendocino County, who, these critics say, are writing tickets for all kinds of things that older...
View ArticleThe Morgenthau Hypothesis
Harry Anslinger, the longtime Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, is widely considered the prime mover behind marijuana prohibition. But during the Congressional debate on prohibition in...
View ArticleChoices
“There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic Oracle… ‘Know thyself’ and ‘Nothing too much’—and upon these all other precepts depend.” — Plutarch The Mendocino Music Festival is upon us once...
View ArticleStillman Ousted
Division over the viability of railroad development is sure to spike now that trails-friendly Arcata Councilmember Alex Stillman has been pulled off the North Coast Railroad Authority (NCRA) Board of...
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The Boonville General Store
The author, daughter Bella & Maria Elena Mendoza. About 15 years ago when I was living in Philo, working as a pastry chef in Mendocino and baking pastry to sell at a few county farmers’ markets, I...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. There is no doubt that “Cat Heaven” is an even better place following the arrival of O.J., the 19-year old “Top Cat,” who was...
View ArticleRiver Views
July 24th marks the anniversary of Anthony Johnson acquiring 250 acres of land in Northampton County, Virginia during the summer of 1651. Anthony Johnson was a free black man, brought to the colony...
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City Lights Books At 60
The fabled City Lights bookstore in San Francisco is sixty years old this year. They’re having a lot of celebratory events to mark the birthday. Even without the past decade’s steady and precipitous...
View ArticleAnderson Valley Township (1914)
This township is located in the Coast Range, almost all in and embracing the whole of the watershed of the Navarro River and a small portion of the headwaters of Dry Creek. It is 30 miles in length...
View ArticleValley People
DON’T FORGET next Tuesday evening’s (July 30th) community meeting at the Boonville Fairgrounds, 6pm, where Rasta Fest 2013, among other matters, will be critiqued. A VISIT from Robert Kraft is always a...
View ArticleOff The Record
WILL PARRISH is being charged with 16 misdemeanors. His maximum jail sentence is eight years. Get guidance on writing to DA Eyster in support of this most admirable young man by clicking on the link...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
YOU DON’T KNOW RALPH Editor, Any time the name ‘Ralph Nader’ comes up, it is sure to stir controversy. It is like waving a red flag in front of the Democrats.Subscribe now to access our entire...
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