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Posts published in “Day: January 1, 2015

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Jan 2, 2015

New Year Quakes;
Soccer/Football Honors;
Richard Robinson;
Bottorf Recovering;
Catch of the Day;
Police Reports;
Cuts & Perks;
Drought Over?;
The Turk;
Poverty Lines;
Palestinian Moves;
New Laws;
Genetically Engineered Trees

Inside Moves

While he was chief of the Fort Bragg Police Department Scott Mayberry falsely accused one of his officers of leaking an official incident report. That's…

Passing Through

I found myself on the grassy series of knobs headed uphill into dark woods, the old stage coach route which picked out a somewhat more…

How to Live

Flocks of sandhill cranes fly overhead during the day, millions of the birds wintering in our river valley. They choose more or less V formations,…

Mendocino County 2014: The Big Stories

Swindle of the Year. Privatization of County Mental Health steered by a former employee of the beneficiary, Ortner Management Group of Yuba City. The deal was engineered by that former employee, an oleaginous little fellow name Pinizzotto who has since been magically appointed to a boss position in what remains of the County Mental Health apparatus. The Board of Supervisors denounced the grand jury for pointing out the legal conflicts of interest benefitting Pinizzotto and his former employer, the Ortner Management Group. Pinizzotto reports to the supervisors on the swell job his former employer is doing. Pinizzotto has used his position with the County to do special favors for Supervisor Hamburg.

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Jan 1, 2015

Ban Illegal;
Consolation Game;
New DMV Laws;
Save the Last Dance;
TV Afterlife;
Restore the Delta;
Catch of the Day;
Happy New Year, 1914;
Complete This Poem

Courthouse Outtakes, 2014

The obligatory year-in-review highlights represent the staid thinking you get in journalism schools. To me, the idea of rehearsing old stories causes me to slump…

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