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Mendocino County Today: February 17, 2012

ACCORDING to the people overseeing the removal of poisoned earth at the G-P mill site in Fort Bragg, the chemical purge of the 415-acre property lying between the middle of town and the ocean is…

Mendocino County Today: February 16, 2012

WEIRD EXCHANGE on Piers Morgan's CNN chat show Monday night. He was interviewing famed record producer Narada Michael Walden and asked him where he was when he heard about Whitney Houston. Walden replies; “I was…

Mendocino County Today: February 15, 2012

THE CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING has resurrected Steve Talbot's first documentary for Frontline called,  "The Best Campaign Money Can Buy," just in time for this year's $2 billion presidential race. Watch it online at http://cironline.org/node/3231.…

Letters To The Editor

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…

Off The Record

This Week: Who Bombed Judi Bari, redux; Two decades years later, still searching for Kristi Krebs; at the Fort Bragg mill site, hopes for post-industrial sanity; and much more

Valley People

WE ARE ALL SADDENED at the loss of Walter 'Shine' Tuttle. The Tuttles, Walter and his wife Beth, for many years anchored this community, it could be said. Always gracious, always kind, the Tuttles devoted…

Mendocino County Today: February 14, 2012

CHRIS BROWN is the County's Air Quality boss who incestuously slapped the County with a $123,000 fine for allegedly not jumping through all the asbestos notification hoops when the County began remodel work on the…

Mendocino County Today: February 13, 2012

DOUG BOSCO, former Northcoast congressman and now an attorney based in Santa Rosa, is promoting Stacey Lawson to succeed Mike Thompson as the area's corporate congressperson. Bosco told the Press Democrat that Ms. Lawson “can…

Mendocino County Today: February 12, 2012

A FORT BRAGG woman was arguing with her husband, the assumption was and is, just before 8am Friday morning when he called the cops for help. When the cops appeared, the 23-year-old woman jumped into…

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