The AVA is Mendocino County’s source for essays and investigative and in-depth reporting. Below is a selection of special AVA projects.
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Jake Rohrer remembers Paris, prison & his travels with Creedence Clearwater Revival in his memoir, The Fortunate Son.
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Will Parrish‘s ongoing series on the Northcoast’s sprawling wine industry.
Booze, A Banker & A Bailout: The Murder Of Mark West Creek
Sonoma County, Banana Republic Of Wine Grapes
The North Coast Wine Industry Latest Coup De Grace: Draining Our Rivers Dry
On Memory & Forgetting In Wine Country
Anderson Valley, Tentacle Of The Wine Grape Octopus
When They Came For The Navarro
Goldeneye: Anderson Valley’s Mercenary Vineyard?
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Will Parrish & Darwin Bond-Graham’s 5-part series on financier and UC regent Richard Blum.
Part 1: Richard Blum, The Man Behind California’s ‘Developing Economy’
Part 2: Disaster Capitalist University
Part 3: A Lesson From California’s Students: WE Make the Crisis
Part 4: Richard Blum, Godzilla Regent
Part 5: Richard (Blum) Ellis’ North Coast Pension Booze
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Tim Stelloh on the fall of former Mendocino County Republican Committee Chairman Kenny Rogers.
Waterboarded: The Kenny Rogers Saga
Will Kenny Rogers Get a New Trial?
Kenny Rogers, Ex-GOP Chairman, Gets 25 to Life
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Mark Scaramella on Former Point Arena Elementary Principal Matt Murray, who had successfully lifted the historically troubled Point Arena school district from state probation. Then he was fired. Behind closed doors.
The Superintendent Does Not Recall
Murrays Lose, Point Arena Loses Bigger
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Freda Moon on Aaron Vargas & vigilante justice in Fort Bragg.
Fort Bragg Advocate-News: Not the NewsHour
An Interview with Mindy Galliani
In Vargas Case, Prosecutors Bring Out the Big Guns
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Bruce Anderson‘s 5-Part Series on the killing of Donald Perez.
Part 1: One Murder, Four Deaths
Part 2: The Interview, the Victim
Part 3: Mendo Justice Gets the Case
Part 5: The Raps & The Wrap Up
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The AVA index on the Judi Bari bombing.
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