Remember the Marvin Noble case? Noble was shot dead by Ukiah Police back in 1998 when he tried to walk back to his Ukiah apartment after the Mendocino Mental Health department dispatched the cops because he wouldn’t take his Haldol. Noble, a 300-plus pound black man, was enrolled in California’s “CONREP” (Conditional Release) program, an [...]
We’ve travelled through “Ukiah After Dark,” setting sail on the inland party boat. But now it’s time to deal with the unhappy consequences of a night on the town as experienced by many young people in Ukiah. I regret to inform the more successful late-night navigators that they now may be one of the millions [...]
Much of the history of California settlement following the Spanish and Mexican periods has been built up around the “romantic” mining industry, which was profitable to the few rich men it produced but often tragic to hundreds of other, unrecorded, hard-working pioneers. It remained for the equally-romantic agricultural industry to produce a class of men [...]
A cautionary tale, versions of which have happened here, and will continue to happen here. On January 9th of this year, Rex Farrance, 59, a long-time technical editor of PC World Magazine, was murdered in a home invasion robbery. Farrance, at the apparent behest of his son, had a large indoor grow going in his [...]
“No river should reach the ocean.” —Stalin Not so long ago there was so much water in the summer time Russian River you could water ski at Healdsburg. Where did all the water go? Why has inland Mendocino County gone from abundance to red flag scarcity? People, lots more of them, lots more demand on [...]
