While the rich still have not figured out how to evade death, they have always been adept at escaping taxes even from beyond the grave. During Johann Sebastian Bach’s day, a sovereign’s demise was yet…
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The four Fifth District Supervisor candidates spoke at a meeting organized by the Anderson Valley Food Shed, the Anderson Valley Grange, and the Mendocino Organic Network which includes the Renegade Certification Program, the folks who…
I had been out last night for a drink or two and was trying to take a cat nap in the back of the ambulance; it was around 0900. That’s how you survive the long…
In less than a decade residing in Anderson Valley I've seen hens, lambs, pigs, and calves springing up in backyards like weeds. We are now experiencing the second wave of the “back-to-land” movement. This time…
A secret report detailing deep divisions within the Mendocino County District Attorney’s office tells how DA candidate Matt Finnegan was fired a year ago after “mounting a campaign of character assassination” against a supervising attorney…
Though lightly populated and scenic as a Kinkade painting, the Mendo Coast is--at times, anyway--as sinister, violent and lawless as the rest of this county.
The title of a recent piece in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat claimed that "Wine country visitors debate later tasting hours." But the body of the story made it clear that the "visitors" were not…
The Pentagon is reeling after two lethal episodes uncovered by diligent journalism showed trigger-happy US Army helicopter pilots and US Special Forces slaughtering civilians, then seeking to cover up their crimes. The worldwide web was…