THE STATE JUDICIAL COUNCIL has put off funding the new Mendocino County Courthouse for another year, fiscal year 2014-15 to be exact. The money for a new courthouse in Ukiah keeps getting diverted into the…
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HOW ONE SENTENCE Saved Me from Living My Whole Life as a Well-Meaning Hick By Hank Sims I often think it must be easier to be a white guy, but truthfully it ain't easy being…
FLU'S GOT US DOWN. DAILY POSTS WILL RESUME SATURDAY NIGHT.
JEFF COSTELLO WRITES: Got my last issue here in Portland on Wednesday, as the next issue was being distributed in Mendo. Sometimes it gets here early as Saturday, but not often. Monday is the usual…
STOP FISH POACHING! Editor, Illegal poaching on the Garcia River / Feds asleep at the wheel. I’d like to share with you a heartbreaking story of federal inaction and mismanagement in the hope that you…
SNOW ON THE HILLS Tuesday afternoon broke up the blandly balmy previous two weeks of summer-like days. At the higher elevations Hull Mountain to the east and the Yolly Bollys, snow could be measured by…
Was It about Civil Rights or Murdering Student Protesters? On February 9, 2013, the Kent State Truth Tribunal and Allison Krause’s family submitted a list of issues to be considered by the United Nations, including…
CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE LYNN WOOLSEY and Senator Barbara Boxer have long been champions of expanding the Cordell Banks and Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuaries as a way to protect the coast from oil and gas…
LAST MAY we wrote about an often-arrested 28-year-old Albion man named Riley Kiesel. He'd been permanently 86'd from Dick's Place in Mendocino, but was charged with attempted murder when he showed up at Dick's a half-hour…