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PAVING 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 for asphalt hot mix plant at the Harris quarry site south of Willits is a really bad idea. The proposal is by Northern Aggregates, a small Willits-based firm in the [...]
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WHY WAS GREENFIELD RAIDED? Editor, The federal DEA raid 7/7/10 of Joy Greenfield’s collective, “Light the Way,” magnifies the critical juncture where medical marijuana legalization in the states challenges federal prohibition. Greenfield, 69, aka “grandma grower,” moved to Covelo California from Colorado to grow her own cannabis in order to save her deteriorating eyesight and [...]
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DEAR DAN Dear Editor, I’m addressing this letter to a man of stature in our community, former United States Congressman, Mr. Dan Hamburg. He is currently a candidate for the Fifth District Supervisor seat of Mendocino County, California. Dan Hamburg, before your mother Jean Hamburg passed away nearly a decade ago, I promised her I [...]
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THE BAD SUPERINTENDENT Dear Editor, Mark Iacuaniello, superintendent of the Point Arena Schools District in Point Area, retired August 1, 2010. He arrived at Point Arena in 2001 after he was “let go” as superintendent of the Mendocino Unified School District (having previously been “let go” as superintendent in Laytonville). Mr. Iacuaniello told the reporter [...]
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WHERE THE FISHIN’S GOOD Editor, I was warned when we moved here to this wonderful state, that the weather was lousy, but the fishing was great! I said, “the good with the bad, the worst with the best,” and I packed up my bags and headed out west. Now I fish in all kinds of [...]
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OUT TO PASTURE To whoever accused me of being “severely neglected”— My name is Filly and I am the equine equivalent of a 95-97-year-old woman. I know you have this beautiful image in your head of what a horse should look like: smooth muscles rippling under a glossy coat perhaps. Just strike that from your [...]
My good friend and former colleague Don Cruiser and I have different opinions on the California Marine Life Protection Act of 1999.
Will the Sheriff’s Office create and post comprehensive written medical marijuana guidelines to deputies to be used in the training of deputies about common encounters between law enforcement and qualified patients at the gardensite, i.e., a primary point of friction?
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WHAT THE HELL? Editor, For What I’m Worth! In my head I hear voices, they give me direction, they give me choices. Right or wrong I can’t decipher, I guess I’m blessed, I’m not a lifer. Why should life be so confusing, and my freedom I’m constantly losing? Does our system have a mental scar, [...]
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SOMETHING SHE SAID? Dear Editor, What I don’t understand about the “Scourging of Helen Thomas” is why no one mentions freedom of speech. Isn’t this still America? What have we come to when a much respected and loved journalist is forced to retire because of something she said? America should be ashamed. William Keller Susanville [...]
