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Mendocino County Today: July 23, 2012

THE NATION MAGAZINE characterizes the late Alexander Cockburn's life as a “Fierce, protracted resistance in the defense of democracy.” That's certainly true of Cockburn, but not the magazine itself, now an arm of the Democratic…

Mendocino County Today: July 22, 2012

ALEXANDER COCKBURN — 1941-2012 Farewell, Alex, My Friend by Jeffrey St. Clair Our friend and comrade Alexander Cockburn died Friday night in Germany, after a fierce two-year long battle against cancer. His daughter Daisy was at…

Mendocino County Today: July 20, 2012

THE JOHNSON RANCH, Boonville, is located on the Boonville end of the Ukiah-Boonville Road. Gary Johnson was driving past his ranch Wednesday afternoon a little before five when he spotted a camo-clad man with a…

Mendocino County Today: July 19, 2012

INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE for House of Representatives in Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district John Murphy congratulated the Green Party on what very well may be a major comeback effort on Tuesday. The Green Party suffered major setbacks…

Letters To The Editor

WHY LAURA’S LAW? Editor, Laura’s Law Issues Raised by Supervisors & Staff 7-10-12 1. Staff estimates the cost of implementing Laura’s Law is $792,696 annually. Nevada County’s cost of providing services to 19 individuals during…

Mendocino County Today: July 18, 2012

DA DAVID EYSTER'S sensible pot enforcement strategies were recently featured in the Daily Journal Legal News, a newspaper for the legal profession. “Under new policy, some offenders can pay restitution and plead to a misdemeanor”…

Off The Record

UKIAH'S FOREST CLUB, the famous bar and retreat on State Street opposite the Courthouse, has been closed by the ABC for 30 days because an underage kid, dispatched by the ABC on a sting mission,…

Valley People

HAROLD HULBERT has died. He was 67. Services will be held Friday, July 27th, at the Apple Hall, Boonville, beginning at noon. I spoke briefly with Shirley Hulbert only last week, and just as I…

Mendocino County Today: July 17, 2012

THE GREEN PARTY has selected Jill Stein, MD, as the party's presidential candidate. Ms. Stein, a 62-year-old internist from Lexington, Mass, is already being denounced by Democrats as working for Romney, the same canard the…

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