For two years a high-profile pot case against a Ukiah teacher hung in legal limbo. But an unexplained decision by DA Lintott to suddenly forge ahead with felony prosecution of teacher Jeff Burrell has shocked his family and friends and cast his teaching career in doubt.
by The AVA
PAUL TICHININ is paid well over a hundred thousand a year — $120,000 as of 2008 — to perform a few nebulous tasks as Superintendent of Mendocino County’s schools. The other day I was told that Tichinin also gets the free use of a tax-funded car complete with tax-funded fuel to commute from his [...]
The recent uptick in the stock market caused by the bailed out banks investing in the stock market has made Mendo’s retirement fund worth roughly $40 million more.
So again with the dazzling dancing. Again with the breath taking feats of aerial daring do. Again with the eye-popping pyrotechnics. And again with the inspired singing, fancy picking, strumming, bowing and blowing. One could say that after nineteen years the Anderson Valley Solar Powered Grange Annual Variety Show is in kind of a rut. [...]
by Tim Stelloh
Judge Ron Brown denied Glenn Sunkett’s request to boot Mendo’s top public defender from his case. So Sunkett asked to go solo.
“Speed me into a wedding so I can stop being a threat to the women of the world.”
According to Will Stenberg, lead man of the local rock band The Kerosene Kondors, your incentive to buy his third solo album, Will Stenberg: Home Recordings, Volume 1, 2002-2009, is to raise money for his upcoming wedding. But I’m [...]
The odd trio of John McCowen, Ross Liberty and Mike Sweeney would be implausible any place but Mendocino County.
by Tim Stelloh
The latest attorney for disgraced Mendo Republican Kenny Rogers, who was convicted last summer of hiring a hitman to kill a political adversary, is claiming that Rogers’ last attorney so thoroughly botched his defense that the case deserves another try.
by The AVA
This week: The Fifth District’s conservative candidate, Mr. B on Feinstein & Blum, Glenn Sunkett’s Thompson problem and much more…
While Mendocino County is known nationally for its embrace of sustainable agricultural practices, D.C. is taking a huge step back from three decades of aggressively pursuing water quality protections.
