Four hours after Russell Rexrode handed a month-old mountain lion cub to a Fish and Game warden, he was arrested for having it. But, as events soon proved, Fish and Game didn’t want the cub so much as they wanted Rexrode. They wanted him bad and they got him good. It was late on a [...]
Last Tuesday’s Supervisors Board combined discussion of a fresh set of catastrophes with a discussion of catastrophes carried over from the August 26th meeting. The morning began with a discussion of the derelicts, the next generation, who have taken over a swath of the Russian River around the Talmage bridge. Rebecca Kress, long-time organizer of [...]
Three years ago the County’s budget had already grown to $187 million. There was the usual ritualistic rhetoric about belt-tightening, cut-backs and general austerity, but spending increased, fueled in large part by borrowing from sources only vaguely identified and understood not at all. The budget grew larger and larger over the next two years and, [...]
In recent months, the Mendocino County District Attorney has prosecuted a Fort Bragg man for saving a mountain lion cub, put a Little River man in jail for tidying up a State Parks trail, ruined a Potter Valley teacher with false charges of molestation, let a couple of confirmed wife beaters go, confiscated the property [...]
