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Who Pays For Home Detention?

Item W on the Board of Supervisors Consent Calendar last Tuesday read: “Approval of a five-year agreement between the Sheriff's office and BI Inc. and authorization for the Sheriff to sign for an additional three…

Mendocino County’s Leaky Lifeboat

In the interest of preserving the reader's mental health, we've edited Mental Health Director Stacey Cryer psuedo-responses to a Grand Jury report that described her agency as a drastic failure.

Management & Labor: A Marriage Made In Mendo

We didn't expect John Sakowicz's “County labor-management” show on KZYX last Friday morning to live up to the hype Sakowicz posted on the AVA's website early last week. Because? Because public radio in Mendocino County…

Supes Spike Laura’s Law

“Laura’s Law has always been a non-starter in Mendo. We can’t afford it,” said one County official involved in the preparation for last week’s two-and-a-half-hour presentation on the “court assisted outpatient treatment” program. Advocates think…

How I Became An Atheist, by Harry Fisher

After a childhood in the Hebrew National Orphan Home and a youth spent as a labor activist and merchant marine, Harry Fisher volunteered to fight fascism in Spain as a member of the Abraham Lincoln…

Trailer Park Blues

After months of lobbying from seniors in the Ukiah Valley, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors took up a “mobile home rent stabilization ordinance” for Mendocino County last Tuesday. Translation: Rent control for trailer parks.…

Thomas Jefferson and The 4th of July — by William Edelen

On the 4th of July, 1826, America celebrated the 50th anniversary of her Independence. John Adams, the second President of the United States, died on that day at the age of 90. His last words…

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