The Mental Health Board of Mendocino County held a special meeting on May 7th to hear additional information regarding Laura's Law (Assembly Bill 1421) and its possible implementation in Mendocino County. Laura's Law, modeled on…
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The final song on the Eagles' Hotel California album is called, “The Last Resort,” and Don Henley's closing line says, “You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye.” At the risk of invoking that truism,…
On March 26, 2012, David Kyle Miller was arrested by Fort Bragg police officers for “refusing or failing to leave land, real property, or structure of another, not open to the public.” In plain words,…
There's an old teddy bear in this house. He takes the blame. A half jar of pickles shrinks to nothing but brine overnight: Teddy did it. The potato chip bag gets opened and diminished before…
This April puts us five years short of the 300th anniversary of the publication of Robinson Crusoe. Daniel Defoe's popular novel about an island castaway is thought to have been inspired by the experiences of…
Last week, in the McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission case, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the narrow (5-4) majority that "Money in politics may at times seem repugnant to some, but so,…
On March 24th the Fort Bragg City Council held a public hearing to consider a resolution authorizing an application for a $2 million community development block grant (CDBG). The specific part of the Fort Bragg…
As opposed to Robert Frost's two roads diverging in a wood, it is often the convergence of two paths that proves just as unexpected and consequential. I have spent the last weeks of winter and…