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Mendocino County Today: September 14, 2013
IN ANOTHER ORPHIC announcement wafting out of the Mendocino County Superior Court this week, The Nine Robes inform us that their budget for fiscal year 2013-14 is a mere $7 million, give or take a few...
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Mendocino County Today: September 15, 2013
THE UKIAH VALLEY SANITATION DISTRICT has filed a formal claim against the City of Ukiah for $16 million going back to the 1960s. According to the claim, filed last Friday (September 6), the City of...
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Mendocino County Today: September 16, 2013
Stoen PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT: Tim Stoen is about to retire as the DA’s prosecutor at Ten Mile Court, Fort Bragg. A courtly fellow well into his golden years, Stoen famously once served as attorney for...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: September 17, 2013
MENDO’S NEW MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM by Malcolm Macdonald In August, the California State Auditor’s office issued a performance review on the Mental Health Services Act. Its summary stated: “Providing...
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Mendocino County Today: September 18, 2013
FRED GARDNER WRITES: Remembering Saul Landau — Saul could tell a joke and make you laugh. Saul could tell a joke and make you laugh. This is the last one I heard him tell: There’s three Texans in a...
View ArticleCecilia Pardini To Retire
This will be the last time Mendocino County Fairgoers and entrants will see beloved staffer Cecilia Pardini — a familiar face at the front desk of the County Fair office. Pardini is retiring after 42...
View ArticleThe Tech Industry & Social Disruption
Disruption was once a theory of social change that inspired the radical Left. In the 1970s scholars like Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward developed a disruptive theory of social movements based in...
View ArticlePioneer Heritage
Over on the Snake River Plateau the old Immigrant Trail split into its Oregon and California forks. The first thing the westering bull-whackers saw as they came up near was a retired prairie schooner...
View ArticleThe People v. Will Parrish
The phylogenetic morphallaxis of certain dendrophiles as they impinge upon the oscine avifauna specific to Little Lake Valley has caused considerable consternation among the more ecologically sensitive...
View ArticleLife & Death
“All men’s misfortune, and the appalling disasters of history, the blunders of statesmen and the errors of great generals, come from the inability to dance.” — Jean Molière Marcia and I had breakfast...
View ArticleRiver Views
A year ago this week I wrote about a then obscure independently produced documentary called Searching for Sugar Man, about a Detroit singer/songwriter who disappeared into the dustbin of the American...
View Article‘Personalized Medicine’
Technology rules our lives, or rather, those who develop and sell it want us to believe that. Those who are peddling all manner of genetic testing really want us to take it on faith that technology can...
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Mendocino County Today: September 19, 2013
THAT DISPUTE between County Auditor-Controller Meredith Ford and DA David Eyster over where varying portions of asset forfeiture money should go, is complicated by Ms. Ford’s poor health. She has been...
View ArticleThe Hardest Working Man In Show Bidness
Next to Ali, I’d be willing to bet that James Brown is the most widely known Afro-American in the world. There are probably teenage Japanese girls who know more about him than I do. And I can...
View ArticleA Decent Pair Of Walking Shoes
I bought an old ’67 Volvo Sedan for $75.00. It belonged to a fella dock mate at the Berkeley Marina, a Pagan witch named Eldrie, who lived on our former boat, the Desiderata. Eldrie had, since I’d last...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. What a fun weekend that was! The County Fair was once again a very enjoyable event and virtually everyone I spoke with seemed...
View ArticleApple Bowl 2013
Last Friday night, the first night of the Fair, the Apple Bowl football game was played after a moving tribute to the veterans of all wars. WWII vets Willis Tucker and Paul Titus were there Tucker’s...
View ArticleMike Langley, A Euology
Mike and Patti Langley, and their daughter Beth, were my neighbors for 30 years. My daughter was often Beth’s baby sitter. And before Mike, Patty and Beth, Mike’s parents, Denver and Zola, had built a...
View ArticleValley People
BIG EXCITEMENT last Thursday evening in Hungry Hollow a little after 7 when deputies were summoned to sort out “a neighbor dispute.” Brandon Johnson, a neighbor complained, had shot another neighbor’s...
View ArticleOff The Record
IS PATRICIA DARLAND making a run for Fifth District Supervisor? Ms. Darland, a former nurse, has been on the Coast Hospital Board since the early 2000s. According to a note Ms. Darland posted in the...
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