Log Rustling, Fort Bragg Style
How an enterprising fisherman and timber worker lost almost half a million in lumber on the Mendo Coast.
How an enterprising fisherman and timber worker lost almost half a million in lumber on the Mendo Coast.
The AVA is Mendocino County’s source for investigative and in-depth reporting. Below is a selection of special AVA projects. _________________________________________ Will Parrish & Darwin Bond-Graham’s 5-part series on financier and UC regent Richard Blum. Part 1: Richard Blum, The Man Behind California’s ‘Developing Economy’ Part 2: Disaster Capitalist University Part 3: A Lesson From California’s [...]
This week: Lintott’s glamour shot, a Kent State Truth Tribunal, Angelo enters CEOdom, Hamburg on medipot and much more…
This week: Driving while stoned, wineries go ga-ga, Sutley v. God and much more.
ANIMAL INSTINCTS Editor, After reading Lee Simon’s letter in the 12/30 edition, I came across the following: written by Henri Cole in the January 14, 2010 edition of the New York Review of Books. The poem is a nihilistic, existential description of the human condition in our times. It could only have been thought, understood, [...]
You’d think she was Ma Barker the way the DA’s Office has ballyhooed the conviction of 68-year-old Nancie Henthorne of Covelo.
The forces for and against John Sakowicz, Mendocino County public radio’s most talked about host, are once again on the march.
I’ve gotten some interesting–though not unpredictable–responses to an essay I wrote a few weeks ago about how the term “mainstream media” is used as political code and sloganeering rather than as a smart critique of big powerful media institutions. In the piece, I called Amy Goodman and Ann Coulter “smug ideologues” who use the term [...]
GREENHOUSE SUMMIT GAS Greetings Editor, Can anyone with some economic expertise inform me about how much (in round figures) gasoline, airplane fuel, energy, cop overtime, the use (or non-use) of many thousands of toilets, vandalism, etc. and the resultant huge carbon footprint costs our planet and ultimately its inhabitants (human and otherwise) due to the [...]
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