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Posts published by “Bruce McEwen”

La Forge & Le Wolfe

We were about to hear how it came to pass that Ashley LaForge had, that raw February morning, taken the stand to call Officer Peter Hoyle a liar, and that same afternoon got herself busted…

Young Woman In a Hurry

On average, 3000 people a year are killed on the highways in California — 33,000 nationwide — whereas only 6630 Americans have been killed in 14 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Plenty of…

Ken & Barb Do Jail

A couple who looked right out of Ranch & Coast Magazine were on their way to Mendocino County's overcrowded jailhouse for growing marijuana. Bob and Daisy Gwin, whose home base is San Diego, had been…

Ghetto Graffiti: VXL

Luis Rodriguez of 1376 South State Street in Ukiah had moved in and fixed the place all up for a small business venture. Having designed a sign inspired by a magazine cover, Rodriguez, modifying it…

Privacy Protection for the Wine Gentry: Brutocao, Take 2

Last week the retrial of Mr. Chris Mulcahy got under way with some pretrial motions which set the tone for how the case will proceed. What it boiled down to was a question of privacy.…

A Question of Believability

For pure verve there’s nothing quite like calling a well-known cop a liar, especially a cop you know, a cop you've worked with when you were a prosecutor, a cop you often see in the…

It Takes All Kinds

The title may be trite, but in Mendocino County during harvest time, cliché or not, we get ‘em all — and when it comes to the stupendously vaulting sense of entitlement we often see among…

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