I read Mike Geniella’s May 24, 2006, article on Norm Vroman in the Press Democrat. Before that article was published, I kept silent to the press about the Mendocino County District Attorney’s race, as have the other Deputy District Attorneys. Certainly, as thinking adults, and just like any other informed county resident, we have our [...]
A suspicious odor of deja vu permeated the Supervisors Chambers in Ukiah last Thursday afternoon when the Mendocino County Planning Commission considered a modification of Esterlina Winery’s Holmes Ranch use permit “to address issues of visitation and off-site parking when on-site parking demand exceeds availability.” Planning department staff had already decided that there was no [...]
by Dick Meister
This much is clear about the confusing many-sided debate over immigration law reform: Whatever Congress finally comes up with — if it manages to come up with anything — is certain to victimize hundreds of thousands of our most important workers. The major legislation before Congress, be it bills backed by Democrats or by Republicans, [...]
by David Severn
George Bergner and his wife Roberta Ann Conger have filed for bankruptcy and put much of their holdings into Chapter 7 liquidation. I must confess that I am somewhat ashamed of the glee with which I greet the news that George Bergner has gone belly up but acknowledge that the shame is academic while the [...]
by David Severn
An emergency page-out came in from the Howard Forest Dispatch center for an escaped controlled burn Thursday night at about 9:40. Though fire conditions are quite low this time of year three engines rolled to take care of the situation. Philo’s Roy Laird in 7477 led the pack. The call was reported as seven miles [...]
