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Coast Copwatch
So I’m sitting in my parked car in Fort Bragg a month ago. I’ve just finished checking the voicemail messages on my cell phone when someone steps up beside my vehicle and hands me a thick manilla...
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Fear & Loathing at KZYX’s Philo Fortress
Having sat on the sidelines, watching the intensity of dialogue increase as the upcoming KZYX election nears, I took the time to research the KZYX “myth” of an incident that occurred over 20 years ago...
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Mendocino County Today: Thursday, February 26, 2014
TIME TO RE-DEFINE “STORM.” A few inches of warm rain is not a storm, breathless “storm” warnings of television weather babes and area newspapers aside. If the few inches of warm rain now falling on...
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Mendocino County Today: Friday, February 28, 2014
THE OLD ALBERTINUM PROPERTY on Ukiah’s Westside is about to be sold to the ever larger Buddhist presence in the Mendocino County seat. The Buddhists already own the former state hospital site at...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, March 1, 2014
REPRIEVE FOR THE CROOKS OF COLLEGE OF THE REDWOODS To give Kathy Smith and her administration the benefit of the doubt, College of the Redwoods, Mendocino has been grossly mismanaged. That is to say,...
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Mendocino County Today: Sunday, March 2, 2014
THE PLOT THINS: The man arrested this week for plunking down a bag of dope at the security check at the Mendocino County Courthouse says the pants he was wearing weren’t his. He was as surprised as...
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Mendocino County Today: Monday, March 3, 2014
YOU’RE GETTING to be an old timer if you remember when Fjord’s was a buffet-style restaurant whose 60-foot sign looming up over North State Street announced the northern perimeter of Ukiah. The...
View ArticleBREAKING…Tentative Agenda for KZYX Board Meeting Tonight
TENTATIVE AGENDA FOR THE MONDAY NIGHT KZYX BOARD MEETING at the Fort Bragg Senior Center: 1. CALL TO ORDER. Initial Hosannahs and 8-1 declaration that GM Coate is in charge of the meeting and the...
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Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Trash Talk Water Lesson of the Day Ted’s Top Ten Delta as Water Nexus McEwen’s Top Thirty Environmental Cannabis Forum Concealed Dirk/Daggers Lazy Fly Days Clandestine Lab Explosion Era of Failed...
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Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Paper Will Be a Day Late PUC Says No to Rural Broadband Trading Felonies for Cash The People vs. Stornetta Eyster vs. Escareno Goodbye James Cahill EU ♥ US $ Knife Fight in Ukiah Can This Marriage Be...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Water Pathology
Speaking at the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board’s once-every-other-month meeting in the north Santa Rosa burbs on January 30th, California State Water Resources Board member Steven...
View ArticleOff The Record (Mar 5, 2014)
THE STATE Public Utilities Commission has rejected a $138 million initiative to bring high-speed internet to roughly 150,000 rural California households, including 3,520 homes in Sonoma and Mendocino...
View ArticleLet’s Play Doctor
Last Friday the District Attorney and one of the Judges added medical doctor to their usual job descriptions. It was pretty amazing, really, but all kinds of fantastic changes are underway in the...
View ArticleA Tramp-like Bird of Prey Abroad
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. The “misbehaving” in the Valley over the past few weeks should probably now be curtailed, as by the time you read this I will...
View ArticleValley People (Mar 5, 2014)
MARCH MIRACLE, take two. Last year we got a nice late rain, and this year we got another one, a real trash mover as they say in Boontling that fell all day Monday, ceasing about 8pm for a total of 3.9...
View ArticleLet’s You & Him Fight
So, now we are threatening to start World War Three because Russia is trying to control the chaos in a failed state on its border — a state that our own government spooks provoked into failure? The...
View ArticleGoogle Money
If you google “money,” the search engine called Google, from which that verbification is derived, will tell you that there are 1.12 billion results (as of February 27, 2014). That sounds like a lot of...
View ArticleHumCo: Jail Release Dilemmas
A community forum on county jail release policies put questions to a local panel whose members in turn asked residents to consider what they can do to effect change. Faced with obvious dissatisfaction...
View ArticleMy Oscars™ Scandal
We were ready to have a very nice party, a friend’s big brother’s 21st birthday affair in a fancy house on the cliff over the ocean, a keg of beer already tapped and some amps set up where the band...
View ArticleAdventures In Morocco
The two young Americans were very lucky to have met David on the ferry between Algeciras and Tangiers. Things might have turned out much worse. David was a tall, elegant, cosmopolitan, multi-lingual...
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