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HumCo, Occupy & Regulating Public Gatherings

Growing tension between county government and Occupy protestors who want  to camp on its front lawn has led to a proposal for an ordinance regulating public assembly on county properties. Supervisor Jimmy Smith advanced the…

Mineral Wrongs

We boarded an airplane at San Jose's Mineta Airport in December, taxied down the runway until the nose pointed to the sky and we lifted up over Silicon Valley. I watched the mountains through the…

The Dry Year

Back about 1925 or so we had a dry year, the last I remember. It quit raining in February and it didn't rain again until the following December, after nearly a full year. It was…

Going Postal

“I claim there ain’t Another Saint As great as Valentine.” — Ogden Nash The notices currently taped to both sides of the glass doors of the Mendocino Post Office proclaim that starting February 14, 2012, our…

‘America’s Last Newspaper’

I decided to enroll in the journalism program at my alma mater, the University of California Santa Cruz, during the run-up to the invasion and occupation of Iraq, circa late 2002 and early 2003. UCSC…

Looking For James Dean

If you go, take a full day trip to go round trip. September is the best time to go. That's a qualified best time because it's the James Dean Memorial Junction — where State 46…

Something’s In The Air

Prison is a hustler's paradise where only the strong survive. It's full of buyers and sellers and everyone is a con-artist.

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