Supervisor Hamburg was all ears, energized at the end of a long meeting day on Tuesday, April 24th. This consent calendar item roused Hamburg: “The Board has consistently taken policy positions on issues addressing illegal marijuana cultivation on public lands. … On February 24, 2012, AB 2284, a bill to prevent and mitigate marijuana cultivation [...]
According to the California Vehicle Code, a speed trap is “…a particular section of a highway with a prima facie speed limit that is provided by this code or by local ordinance … if that prima facie speed limit is not justified by an engineering and traffic survey conducted within five years prior to the [...]
Mendocino County District Attorney David Eyster said, “No comment” recently when he was asked if the investigation into the untimely and improbable death of Susan Keegan in November of 2010 was ongoing. Eyster’s terse refusal to discuss the status of the case seems to mean that Mrs. Keegan’s unlikely end is indeed a matter of [...]
In late January of this year, the Anderson Valley PTA’s vice president, Nicole McLain, learned that two PTA checks totalling over $2,300 written to the group’s president, Bronwen Hanes, signed by Ms. Hanes, had bounced when Ms. Hanes tried to deposit them in her personal account. Ms. Hanes denied writing the larger of the two [...]
The theory of “redevelopment” is that public agencies borrow money they then put to public or private purpose to increase the borrower’s tax base. The tax base thus magically broadened, the public agency pays back the redevelopment loan. In other words, the proverbial private (or public) pig dives face first into the public poke. Subscribe [...]
Given the choice, I’d prefer the real Stalinism over the hippie version prevalent on the Northcoast, no better example of which was Monday night’s (April 2nd) Women’s Voices talk program on KZYX, itself, along with KMUD and KPFA on the subject of the Bari Bombing, heavy on neo-Stalinist conversation controls. Most of the locally generated [...]
After almost two days of public input and discussion the Supervisors unanimously approved the Environmental Impact Report for Northern Aggregate’s asphalt plant and expanded gravel mining operation. A startlingly obtrusive industrial presence at the top of the Willits Grade on the west side of Highway 101, the quarry has been in place for many years. [...]
New state regulations require that most diesel trucks and buses in California be upgraded to reduce particulate and nitrogen-oxide emissions. Heavier trucks must be retrofitted with particulate filters beginning January 1, 2012, and some older trucks must be replaced starting in January 1, 2015. The rules are supposed to improve air quality and, by extension, [...]
“Last year 68% of the real estate sales in the County were depressed properties. Real estate values have dropped from a mean of $400k in 2007 to under $200k in 2012, and this is of course compounded by the effects of fore closures on surrounding property values.”
Judi Knew Mike Bombed Her by Crawdad Nelson (Ed note: Darryl Cherney is in the news lately for a hagiographic, and thoroughly dishonest, film he’s made called ‘Who Bombed Judi Bari.’ Steve Talbot, who went on to produce the PBS Frontline series, made an honest film also called ‘Who Bombed Judi Bari?’ It is out [...]
