Normal Water Times
“Daddy, what did ‘rain’ look like?” It didn’t take long for people to forget, and as years went by, to have been born and grown without ever having seen it. Occasionally, but less and less, rare...
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‘Heads-up!’ with Auberjonois & Hesseman
As many folks will hopefully have heard, they’re back! I’m referring to those two wonderful performers and stars of film, television, and stage, Valley resident René Auberjonois and his good friend...
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Judge James A. Washington
The fact that people of color are punished disproportionately by drug prohibition is now widely acknowledged in the United States. Just last week in the New Yorker David Remick quoted the President...
View ArticleLetters: Feb 5, 2014
TOO MUCH BYPASS WATER Editor, Delay Further Water-Using Construction on Bypass January 28, 2014 Governor Jerry Brown State Capitol, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814 Re: Drought & Implications for...
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Pepper Spray 101
Editor: On Pepper Spray. Ahhh! There’s nothing like the smell of pepper spray early in the morning! It builds character! Pepper spray and the California prison system go together like peanut butter and...
View ArticleMendo’s Labor Wars
The slo-mo labor relations trainwreck between SEIU 1021 and Mendocino County continues to play out with both sides having now issued dueling press releases based on the findings and recommendations of...
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Mendocino County Today: February 5, 2014
LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, I was saddened by the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. What a talent. How awful that something in him was so haunting that only the killer drug could fight it off. And then the...
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Mendocino County Today: Thursday, February 6, 2014
THE FEBRUARY MIRACLE? Report from National Weather Service Eureka… Periods of Moderate Rain Friday Night through Sunday Night Rapid Rises Expected on Area Rivers Impacts Main stem rivers will have...
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Mendocino County Today: Friday, February 7, 2014
prosecutor arrested local water thirsty frackers river fishing closures Canada’s water Staples PO protested KZYX gets FCCed Parducci passes police calls Eel River recovery ocean broken remembering...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, February 8, 2014
THE WEATHER PEOPLE are now predicting as much as 8 inches of rain over the weekend. We’ll all know for certain that we’ve seen a deluge if Highway 128 is closed at Flynn Creek Road when the Navarro...
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Mendocino County Today: Sunday, February 9, 2014
Rain & Drought Navarro River HumCo Water Discussion SoCal Reservoirs Full CalTrans Warned, Again CA Cottage Food Bill Koch Bros Farm Bill American Exceptionalism 10 Great Rouse Reads KZYX...
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Mendocino County Today: Monday, February 10, 2014
Weekend Rain History of Willits Airport Abalone Closures CalTrans Complaints Corporate Mind Rape Police Reports ============================= THE WEATHER REPORT: REPORTS FROM VARIOUS areas of the...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Fish & Rain Willits Needs Water Good for Iceland FCC Gets an Earful Nature Solo at Lauren’s ======================= CHRIS SKYHAWK REPORTS on the Navarro River: “Yesterday (Saturday) the river was...
View ArticleA Tramp-Like Bird of Prey Abroad
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. So, while I continue to enjoy the Annual Birds of Prey Convention over here in the United Kingdom of Turkey Vultures, Buzzards,...
View ArticleOff The Record
A MEETING to discuss the announcement that the College of the Redwoods plans to close its Fort Bragg campus will be held Monday, February 17th at Fort Bragg Town Hall, 12 noon to 2pm. ANOTHER CRUCIAL...
View ArticleValley People
THE DELUGE STANDARD. If Highway 128 is closed at Flynn Creek Road the Navarro River has boiled over and we’ve had a really big rain. Or a series of really big rains. If the road isn’t closed, we’ve...
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The Hungry Hollow Gunslinger
When Brandon Johnson arrived in court for his sentencing last Friday, he hardly looked the part of a gunslinger. In fact, the guerilla growers and bush hippies of Hungry Hollow, Philo, would have had...
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Unfulfilled Pleas
“This ain’t no place for the weary kind. This ain’t no place to lose your mind.” Those lines from the Crazy Heart theme aptly describe Mendocino County when it comes to its mental health system. “There...
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The Consummate Wine Man
John Parducci John Parducci, the legendary Mendocino winemaker, died on February 4th at age 96. In a real sense, he was the name and face of Mendocino wine in the modern era, laying much of the...
View ArticleDefense Of Necessity
As you have read elsewhere in the AVA, the Mendocino County District Attorney’s office and I agreed to a settlement recently. I was represented in these negotiations by my attorney, Omar Figueroa of...
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