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Balancing Budgets In Unbalanced Times

At the end of August, Mendocino County's CEO informed the Supervisors that the good ship Mendo was still in the hole to the tune of $2.7 million for the current fiscal year. After two days…

The Koran At Fahrenheit 451°

By the end of the week, the air was so thick with pieties about the need for tolerance and respect for all creeds that one yearned for the Rev. Terry Jones, mutton chop whiskers akimbo,…

Panther Soccer 2010

The soccer program’s ‘road trip’ of six-games in 15 days that has opened our season continued last week with a visit to chilly Tomales on Wednesday, Sept 8th. Well, not quite. As the coaches were…

‘Viva Mexico! Let’s Go Kill Some Gachupines!’

The clocks are literally ticking as Mexico starts the final leg of the countdown to the 200th anniversary of its independence from Spain. Dozens of huge, solar-pow­ered timepieces have been installed in this monster city's…

Summertime Spectacles

It was a warm and wonderful summer that ended last week with the Labor Day holiday. I usually avoid sum­mertime extravaganzas big enough to require one to park on grass and get on a bus,…

Sports Notes

Last week I wrote that Nate Davis was the most physi­cally gifted young QB in the entire NFL and that it would be a blunder for the 49ers to cut him before he had a…

Raising Coyote Dam

Last night representatives from the local water agen­cies met to hear a presentation by the Corps of Engineers on its plans for the Coyote Dam at Lake Mendocino. The public was invited. Bill and I…

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