Who Really Rules Mendo Wine Country?

Most vineyard acreage in the region is ruled by a small collection of massive multi-national corporate conglomerates, which typically boast annual revenues greater than a billion dollars. Yes,...

America Enters A New Time

I went to get my hair cut the other day in the town of Fortuna and waited ten minutes while the elderly barber finished buzz-cutting a young Mexican...

Pardon Me, President Obama: Or Not, As Recent Reports Show

One of Barack Obama’s campaign slogans as he ran for President two years ago was, “The change we need.” Unfortunately, for those in the Federal Criminal Justice System,...

Marriage’s Fiercest Defenders

It took a gay Republican judge with libertarian leanings to issue from the bench, in a US District courthouse in San Francisco, one of the warmest testimonials to...

How to Steal $3,000

Three years ago, Supervisor Kendall Smith claimed $14,658 in travel expenses. Among the many other things the regal solon thought the taxpayers should pay for was her pet...

Ignoring Public Input

Philo’s Daniel Myers, representing Friends of the Navarro Watershed and the Mendocino Chapter of the Sierra Club, took the podium at last Wednesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting to...

Crime Linda Thompson’s Dump Truck

Linda Thompson’s Dump Truck

by Bruce McEwen

The prosecution didn’t have much of a case against him, but Timothy S. ‘Coke’ Elliott, 38, was found guilty of Second Degree Murder last week at the end of a two-week trial attended throughout by...

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The Love Drug Claims Another Life

The Love Drug Claims Another Life

by Bruce McEwen

Last Thursday afternoon a nicely dressed woman car­rying three A-2 assault rifles walked out of the DA’s office on the ground floor of the Mendocino County Courthouse. It was two days after Mariano Lopez Fernandez,...

August 26 2010 / No comment / Read More »
County

Who Really Rules Mendo Wine Country?

by Will Parrish

Who Really Rules Mendo Wine Country?

Most vineyard acreage in the region is ruled by a small collection of massive multi-national corporate conglomerates, which typically boast annual revenues greater than...

Sep 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Will Lisa Get Her Sulcatas Back?

by Bruce Anderson

Will Lisa Get Her Sulcatas Back?

Lisa Chiapero and Mike Moilanen recently drove from Fort Bragg to Ukiah to visit their close friends Lucy, Pedro and Low Boy, a trio...

Sep 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »

America’s Switzerland

by Bruce Patterson

America’s Switzerland

I can’t say how many places lay claim to being “America’s Switzerland.” Like, while driving through Missouri, how many of Jesse James’ “famous hideouts”...

Sep 1 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Old-Time Music Hits Boonville

by Bruce McEwen

Old-Time Music Hits Boonville

The Golden Old-time Music Camp-Out came to Boon­ville last weekend for the second time. It used to be in Yreka, way up north. This...

Aug 26 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Politics

High & Low Dudgeons, Hidden Agendas, & Bad Vibes Generally

by Mark Scaramella

High & Low Dudgeons, Hidden Agendas, & Bad Vibes Generally

Wednesday night’s Community Services District meeting at the Boonville Firehouse was uncharacteris­tically testy, and grew testier as the evening wore on as trustees traded verbal jabs with each other and aimed a couple of body blows at Fire Chief Colin Wilson. The first skirmish arose...

Aug 26 2010 / No comment / Read More »

This is What Success Looks Like

by Alexander Cockburn

This is What Success Looks Like

The last American combat brigade in Iraq has left the country, so the Pentagon announced this week. The 40,000 personnel from 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division began crossing into Kuwait August 19. The US combat mission in Iraq — Operation Iraqi Freedom – is...

Aug 26 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Shining a Light On The Kent State Shootings of 1970

by Laurel Krause

Shining a Light On The Kent State Shootings of 1970

On August 7 and 8, the Kent State Truth Tribunal (KSTT) traveled to San Francisco to record and preserve narratives from west coast-based original witnesses to and participants in the 1970 Kent State shootings. My sister Allison Krause was one of the four stu­dents killed...

Aug 26 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Culture

Another Life

by Nicholas Heller

Another Life

It is not uncommon for those of us who have lived for over half a century to nostalgicize a Mom’s-apple-pie-in-the-sky America of the late Fifties and early Six­ties that was kinder and gentler than it is today. Which just goes to show the truly corrosive...

Sep 1 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Panther Soccer 2010

by Steve Sparks

Panther Soccer 2010

The new season opened last Friday evening with a return match against Drew High School of San Francisco who had visited Boonville this time last year when the home team Panthers managed to secure a narrow 3-2 victory. The team and coaches set off in...

Sep 1 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the EditorPAVING WITH GOOD INTENTIONS Editor, Ron Epstein’s Sunday View column in the August 22 Ukiah Daily Journal attempts to explain why he thinks the planned...

Sep 1 2010 / No comment / Read More »
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The Jaundiced Eye When Pot And Wine Merge

When Pot And Wine Merge

California is in the slo-mo process of merging wine and marijuana into two branches of the same Intoxication industry. The merger is still in its early stages, but the outlines of it are...

Aug 26, 2010 / More »
Mamam August Adventures

August Adventures

I have been at a loss as to how to go from a post about death to justabout anything else.  Suffice to say my dear friend is no longer using her hospital bed. ...

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Flypaper Blocked Block Party Redeemed: City Settles in EcoMotion Fiasco

Blocked Block Party Redeemed: City Settles in EcoMotion Fiasco

Fort Bragg City Council was going to allow a fundraiser block party in the streets of the city. Then they canceled it and kept a $5,000 deposit EcoMotion laid down for the event....

Jul 28, 2010 / More »
Geniella at Large Cloudy Skies & And so are my Thoughts

Cloudy Skies & And so are my Thoughts

It’s a warm and gray morning. A blanket of clouds covers the Azores, casting a blue-gray shadow across the Atlantic. Some clouds creep slowly across the flanks of the towering volcano on the...

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