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A Merry Courthouse Christmas
The jailhouse gossipmongers and rumor brokers are working over time, and the more credulous inmates are full of high hopes. One very popular rumor making the rounds at the Tweeker’s Holiday Inn on Low...
View ArticleConfessions Of A Failed Computer Professor
Actually, I was not a computer professor but a junior college part-time computer instructor in the late 1980s at Evergreen Valley Community College in San Jose. I bought a Radio Shack TRS-80 in 1979...
View ArticleNeed A CAB? Call KZYX!
As the holidays quickly approached, six members of KZYX’s newly formed Community Advisory Board (CAB) met on Dec. 19th at Anderson Valley High School. Despite the dark, cold and inconvenient timing,...
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Mendocino County Today: January 8, 2014
RECOMMENDED READING: Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi. By far the clearest and most convincing book on the subject I’ve ever read. Bugliosi,...
View ArticleLetters: Jan 8, 2014
OAKY JOE! AN UPDATE Hello Editor and Readers, Okey Joe here. I am happy to report that I have not had any legal stuff going on since I moved my family out of Mendocino County. I am fine and my wife and...
View ArticleDetroit (Part 2)
Day 3 — Detroit Today we go to a ballgame at old Tiger Stadium, in Detroit. Life is good, real, real good. And, MOTOWN, baby, Barry Gordy’s home — Hitsville, USA. The MOTOWN sound, its museum. Bob...
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January Local Food News
Thanks to all the incredible volunteers who, once again, made our annual Community Holiday Dinner such a success. We couldn’t do it without you! AV Foodshed Group continues to present the Boonville...
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Mendocino County Today: January 9, 2014
SUPERVISORS DECLARE DROUGHT EMERGENCY by Tiffany Revelle The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to declare a local emergency “and imminent threat of disaster” from...
View ArticleThe Less Fortunate
by Lyra Jubb Do you believe that your contributions are really helping the less fortunate? Do you want to know where the tax dollars and honorable contributions for the needy are really going? Have you...
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How Sutter Health Is Increasing Your Healthcare Costs
by Gregory Duncan, MD Part 1: ‘Regionalization’ Sutter Health’s activties in Del Norte County reveal their statewide effort to control the California healthcare market Many people have been asking...
View ArticlePutting Food By
Last autumn, I received permission to harvest apples from our neighbor’s tree. I had no idea what variety they were; they looked a bit like Gravensteins, but ripened later and were not very good eaten...
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Mendocino County Today: January 10, 2014
WILLITS POISED TO DECLARE DROUGHT EMERGENCY by Linda Williams The city has about 100 days of water in its reservoir and January is projected to be drier than normal. The Willits City Council is...
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Mendocino County Today: January 11, 2014
THE COUNTY has established a hurry-up “drought hotline” at 463-4589. The idea is that County residents will provide status reports on their individual water situations so the County can get a clear...
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Mendocino County Today: January 12, 2014
ABOUT AN HOUR of rain fell on Mendocino County Saturday morning, just enough to sweeten the air and whet our thirst for more, much more. If we got a quarter inch we’d be surprised. By early afternoon...
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Mendocino County Today: January 13, 2014
WE IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT of the Willits Bypass when reading the recent news that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s staff created a bottleneck on the George Washington Bridge for several days on the...
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Mendocino County Today: January 14, 2014
NO RAIN in the forecast for at least the next two weeks as CalFire, Monday, announced an “uncommon fire weather watch” from Monday night to Tuesday morning as the weather service warns of a potentially...
View ArticleCalTrans’ Toxic Cover-Up?
Let’s start with penta. A pesticide and wood preservative that timber companies applied liberally at mill sites from the 1960s until it was banned from most uses in 1987, penta (or pentachlorophenol —...
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Warrant On Trial
When the police act under a warrant that is invalid for lack of probable cause, the exclusionary rule does not apply if the police acted “in objectively reasonable reliance” on the subsequently...
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Mendocino County Today: January 15, 2014
TINFOIL HAT ALERT, ALBION! Verizon is asking the County’s Planning Commission for permission to erect “a 105-foot monopole supporting 12 panel antennas, including two GPS antennas” one mile south of...
View ArticleGoogle: One Of Our Biggest Tax Dodgers
Yesterday San Francisco’s politicians announced that Google, Apple, and other Silicon Valley companies will be charged for the use of the city’s bus stops. Until yesterday the private buses, untold...
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