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Posts published by “McEwen Bruce”

The Golden Fleece of the Little Lamb

Abel Aguado and Devin Kester-Tyler have been Argonauts of the Ukiah streets for as long as I’ve been covering the courthouse scene. They’ve always seemed to me like a couple of well-mannered orphans in an…

Justice for Blahut

Michael Blahut was on trial last week for three felonies and two misdemeanors stemming from an incident at the MacDonald’s Drive–Thru in Ukiah a year and a half ago

The One & Only Michael Ray France

Mr. Todd Ramos was set for jury trial last week on charges of a felon with a gun, somehow related to a domestic abuse case, and with the recent murder of a Willits woman

Hail Mary — Courtroom Stadium

Three out-of-town lawyers, representing the home invasion gang from Indiana that ripped off 20 pounds of processed bud from the Slagel home in Brooktrails on October 27

Why I Abjure the Interview

When I was an editorial intern at Ranch & Coast Magazine back in 1983 my editor, Steve Marshke, would fill my inbox with press releases he’d sorted through; my job was to edit them down…

Dusting Dustin’s Pants Off

The jury trial for Dustin Golyer of Ukiah ended in convictions for Count One felony vandalism and Count Two a misdemeanor resisting arrest. The jury wasn’t out very long, the verdict arriving the same day…

Ten Years After

Through some fluke of coincidence I just happen to be the same age, 67 this week, as the newspaper I have worked for the past ten years, the nationally distributed but locally marginalized Anderson Valley…

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