Off the Record
by The AVA
This week: deVall & the 5th District Supes race, the Rural Legal Club, Mendo Branch, Tichinin’s “Day of Action” and much more…
by The AVA
This week: deVall & the 5th District Supes race, the Rural Legal Club, Mendo Branch, Tichinin’s “Day of Action” and much more…
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 [...]
by The AVA
This week: Lintott’s glamour shot, a Kent State Truth Tribunal, Angelo enters CEOdom, Hamburg on medipot and much more…
by The AVA
This Week: The cost of blather, the return of Craig McMillan, Mendo’s insta-chlor press releases and much more…
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This Week: Marvin Trotter, Congressman Wine Guy, The Walmart of Weed, an MTA boondoggle and much more…
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This week: Jameson Jackson gets out of jail, Carmel Angelo takes on Marvin Trotter, Ayn Rand’s balls, Bosk vs. Sako and much more…
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This week: Driving while stoned, wineries go ga-ga, Sutley v. God and much more.
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MENDO PEOPLE close to the dope trade say “dimes were dropped” in the Schlosser case, probably lots of them. Ukiah resident Deborah Schlosser, 56, wife of Bert Schlosser of the Mendocino County Alternate Defender’s office, has been sentenced to 18 months probation and a $10,000 fine in Utah (of all places) for transportation of 162 [...]
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THIS POOR GUY, a walking advertisement for single payer health coverage, was booked into the Mendocino County Jail a few days ago for missing probation appointments, probably because he couldn’t lift his tumor off his pillow.
Seriously, though, this is the kind of thing that happens to people in a country with NO health care for a [...]
by The AVA
BACK ON MONDAY the 14th of December, the Board of Supervisors, as expected, voted 5-0 to allow a quarry operation on Poonkinney Road, an area lying between Highway 101 and Covelo, a very rural area not suited to industrial enterprise. The quarry is situated just off a one-lane rural road so narrowly serpentine that CalFire, [...]