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FLYING CLOUD Editor, Re: “Let Them Eat Yachts” — That’s a great story, just a few personal details and some historical trivia to add. I joined my first ship, the APL cargo liner SS President McKinley, at Pier 29 in September, 1969. Your first ship becomes you first love, and she was a magnificent beauty. [...]
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MY DATE WITH DEB Editor, Late on February 6th Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s office released her list of candidates for President of the United States who would appear on the primary election ballots of the various parties in the presidential preference section. Breaking the precedent of the previous 36 years, this list for the [...]
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This Week: North of Cloverdale, “0 percent” political courage; A math error in Ukiah; Strange times in Point Arena; and much more
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RUSH FOR PA SCHOOL BOARD Dear Editor: I am often questioned as to why I am so involved in the school district since I have no children or grandchildren in it. I can only say that I am passionate regarding education because these students are our future and deserve to get the best education afforded [...]
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HOBSON’S CHOICE Dear Editor, If it came down to a choice between a cannabis dispensary and a church next door, I would choose the cannabis dispensary in an instant. Cannabis is much less dangerous. If we tote up the score over the arc of history, it’s abundantly clear which should be banned. Deaths due to [...]
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AARON BASSLER’S despairing father isn’t alone in his laments at the absence of effective mental health services. In Mendocino County those services, as they affect the most volatile persons, consist of the Mendocino County Jail where inmates see a couple of psych nurses and Dr. Rossoff, Mendocino County’s highest paid employee at around $220,000 a [...]
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McCOWEN’S DISPENSARY FEES Editor, Supposing Supervisor John McCowen will take a hard line on dispensaries will entirely depend on how many fees McCowen can impose. Remember a little while ago, McCowen spearheaded the Measure B campaign to repeal a 25 plant limit and impose a 6 plant limit. He even went as far as setting [...]
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ROBBING THE PAST Editor, I’m reading a great must-read book, Griftopia, by Rolling Stone’s political correspondent Matt Taibbi that I have to recommend to everyone interested in understanding the giant rip-off that the crooked international banking cartel, associates, henchmen (like Standard and Poors) and hordes of Wall Street criminals pulled off, and is still going [...]
This is an appeal to the people of the city of Point Arena, in regards to the recent actions of the Point Arena City Council, and their alleged “Order of Abatement of Nuisance” against the Sea Shell Inn, the methods employed in the generation of this spurious document, and the manner in which it was [...]
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OBAMA UNMASKED Dear brothers and sisters, Please, for just a moment, pretend you have not been brainwashed by Barack Obama, or by folks like Timothy Geithner and Nancy Pelosi and all their enthusiastic mass media admirers. (And those few Republicans on the north coast, pretend for a moment you have not been brainwashed by the [...]
