How do you estimate the commercial value of Mendo Mellow? What do you count? Plants? Processed bud? It's a bit like counting grains of sand on the beach.
Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”
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No, no. It's not what you may think. This is a story told by my father about an experience he had while he was in college at UC Davis. It was 1928 and my grandfather,…
In the Summer of 1998 an enterprising fisherman and timber worker named David McCutcheon leased a bare acre of land from Ed Colombi Sr. The acre sat off Odom Lane about a mile north of…
In a letter from San Quentin, Aaron Vargas talks prison & politics.
It took the Supes no time at all to give a 15-year county-wide garbage contract to Solid Waste of Willits, a private business owned by an enterprising fellow named Jerry Ward.
All eight of Mendocino County's "bargaining units" are up for negotiation this year. The "Department Head" bargaining unit, an oxymoronic joke anywhere but Mendocino County, has already agreed to a 10% pay cut. This "bargaining…
On June 15 the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors whacked the Sheriff’s Department $2 million. Two million. The vote was 4-1, McCowen dissenting.
Of course the "Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010" which will be on the ballot in November will not be called "Proposition 420." But whatever number it ends up with in November, it's…