THE DEATH OF MARTIN LUTHER KING. Friends, In memory of Martin Luther King, a clip from my documentary, “1968: The Year that Shaped a Generation” (PBS, 1998) which we posted on The I Files YouTube…
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FOSTER FATHER Accused In Baby's Death Had Drug Arrest By Tiffany Revelle The foster father accused of beating a five-month-old baby girl to death in December while she was in his care was in Mendocino…
REEL SHORT MOVIE REVIEW. Zero Dark Thirty. The Chron's ineffable movie reviewer, Mick LaSalle, says it's “one of the best films of 2012.” I'd say it's one of the worst but, in its way, revelatory…
THE HEADLINE on the front page of Thursday's Ukiah Daily Journal announced (again) that Bruce Richard, Mendocino Transit Authority boss, has retired after 31 years of "service." To himself. Richard was paid about a hundred…
AS A LETTER WRITER reminded us this week, in any round-up of unsolved Mendocino County murders, those of Charles ‘Buzzy’ Mitchell, 66, and his son Nolan Mitchell, 34, must be included. Mitchell Sr. was bludgeoned…
ADNAN AS METAPHOR Editor, Our man on the spot — Adnan Farham Abdul Latif apparently accepted psychiatric medications casually left a potentially Guantanamo assisted suicide which rescued prison authorities of responsibility. Just as Athenian justice…
This is a reminder that our Farmers and Eaters Roundtable will be this Thursday January 17 at the AV Senior/Community Center at the southern end of Boonville. The program for the evening is as follows:…
MAN BEATER OF THE WEEK: Repeat offender, Veronica Moreno of Ukiah. Ms. Moreno has smacked Mr. Moreno before, and now she's gone and done it again. Yo! Dude! Don't you know by now that when…
CORRECTION: In last week's excellent account of the KZYX board meeting by Sheila Dawn Tracy, it was our editorial error that stated board minutes had been prepared by station manager John Coate. The minutes were…