by Freda Moon
To hear Dan Hemann tell it, Fort Bragg’s Headlands Coffeehouse is a blight on an otherwise quiet downtown—a raucous cesspool where drugs, booze and urine flow freely. Worse still, Headlands has set a potentially disastrous precedent. In its 13-year history, this family-run coffeehouse has contributed to downtown Fort Bragg becoming an alarmingly vibrant neighborhood. In [...]
A few years ago when our state budget problems became a little too spiny to sweep under the rug even when the television cameras weren’t on, Governor Meatbag decided to hold a costly “Special Election” to give California voters the opportunity to endorse his solutions to our financial woes, namely the traditional, time-proven plutocratic techniques [...]
Glenn Schmoll is 69. Glenn Schmoll says he’s going to write a book, an unhappy book, on the theme of getting old in a cold rented house with a heater that doesn’t work and two sets of unsympathetic landlords. The book will be about that and other things — many other things.
Glenn Schmoll is [...]
Mendocino County is broke and getting broker by the day, but bankruptcy batted fifth last Tuesday.
Agenda Item 5-b was called “Budget officer’s report.”
There wasn’t one.
But there is a budget officer. His name is Tom Mitchell. He is also the CEO and he runs the County for the supervisors, and for us, too.
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by Tim Stelloh
A couple of weeks ago, an odd story ran in the Fort Bragg Advocate about the unsolved death of 22-year old Katlyn Long — the coast girl who died suspiciously nearly a year ago.
Quoting county detective Sgt. Greg VanPatten, the article provided a thoroughly perplexing explanation about why the case has remained static.
“Investigators are still [...]
