Scenes From A Marriage
Constance Gee’s just published memoir, Higher Education: Marijuana at the Mansion, is a terrific book. (Her last name is pronounced with a hard G, as in clarified-butter ghee.) The title refers to the...
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Federal authorities arrested five Mendocino area residents last month, charging each with one count of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute drugs. This is part of a larger drug trafficking...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Isn’t it about now that the ‘13 Days of Christmas’ begin? And how come we almost never hear the 13th day sung about? You know,...
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The Philanthropist Of Greenwood Road
John Williams Philanthropist is a Greek word that means ‘friend of the people.’ Local Englishman John Williams was certainly that to many. He died of a heart attack on Sunday, December 2nd in his home...
View ArticleThe Goldeneye Diaries
What’s interesting about winemaker Zach Rasmusen’s protocol of running a crew is that the first 20 to 30 minutes of every morning is spent stretching together. He received press for this in Out...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
QUASH THE SUBPOENA Editor, Quash The Federal Grand Jury Subpoena — The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office was issued a federal grand jury Subpoena on 10/23/12 for medical cannabis patient records and...
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Mendocino County Today: December 13, 2012
OUR NEW COUNTY COUNSEL, Tom Parker, told the Ukiah Daily Journal, when he arrived a few months ago, that he was abreast of marijuana court decisions, suggesting that he could handle pot-related...
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We Are All Customers
This photo was posted on The Other 98%’s facebook page tagged “An important safety tip.” I get the importance of shock value. This photo caught my eye not just because my aunt was soliciting her...
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Mendocino County Today: December 14, 2012
SEEMS LIKE every month there’s an announcement specially aimed at the dimmer sectors of our palest demographic. This month, it’s the news out of the Census Bureau that by 2043 “whites will no longer...
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Aesop’s Fables Quiz
There are well over 600 Aesop’s Fables. Some are well known. Some are obscure. Here are a few of them. We’ll give you the fable, you tell us what he moral is. (Note: Since the morals of the fables can...
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Mendocino County Today: December 15, 2012
HUMBOLDT BAY BILLIONAIRE Rob Arkley, having long ago purchased the Eureka City Council and the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, is now intent on securing public funding to study the feasibility of...
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Mendocino County Today: December 16, 2012
JAMES MARMON, a Mendocino County CPS worker fired for identifying the precise problem with CPS, again puts his finger right on the nut of the problem: “This is a copy of an email I sent to the County...
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Mendocino County Today: December 17, 2012
Smith AGENDA ITEM 6b for the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors begins: “It is customary for the Board of Supervisors to honor outgoing Supervisors in recognition of their public service.” Outgoing...
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Mendocino County Today: December 18, 2012
Breit STILL AS CROOKED as a brokeback snake, Luke Breit, is again in the news. An occasional resident of Mendocino, and a former chief aide to then-assemblyman Dan Hauser, Breit was last in the news...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: December 19, 2012
WE WERE WONDERING why we hadn’t heard from Congressman Winebottle on the Newtown Massacre. Today, courtesy of Hank Sims at LostCoastOutpost.com, we discover that he has been designated as the...
View ArticleValley People
THE GOOD NEWS! New hires at the Anderson Valley Unified School District include: Noor Dawood, who will function as a teacher’s aide at the Adult School. Logo Teveseu is now an instructional assistant...
View ArticleOff The Record
REALLY, is it necessary to hear from every media person in the country on the Connecticut event? What’s to say? Have you heard a single comment or analysis that wasn’t simply a statement of the...
View ArticleA Nation Of Lone Nuts
How exceptional is the U.S.A.? Shall we count the ways? It is definitely exceptional that we can expect, on a regular basis, guys with multiple guns to walk into schools, shopping malls and even...
View ArticleThe Gift Of The Old Guy
1. RAY, a slender man of eighty-two, his white hair sparse, gazes out the bus window at the passing fields. He is lost in thought, truly lost, unaware of who he is or where he’s going. Ray’s wife Vera,...
View ArticleHome Care Workers Need Presidential Help
The country’s 2-million-plus home care workers have been waiting a whole year now for President Obama to make good on his promise to grant them the federal minimum wage and overtime pay protections...
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