For two years a high-profile pot case against a Ukiah teacher hung in legal limbo. But an unexplained decision by DA Lintott to suddenly forge ahead with felony prosecution of teacher Jeff Burrell has shocked his family and friends and cast his teaching career in doubt.
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Nothing more easily elicits roars of assent across a good slice of the political spectrum than the hoarse alarms that wave after wave of brown-skinned illegals continually flood across the border, plunging neighborhoods and whole…
“What we need to start doing,” somebody recently told me, “is start getting back to a bartering system. Get away from dependence on the dollar bill.” “Yeah,” I said, several times, finally picking up a…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Well, once again I attended both evenings of the annual Variety Show and, although I assume another roving reporter from the AVA…
A logical first stop for snowbirds returning from Arizona to the Upper Midwest is Tucumcari, New Mexico, a little town big enough for a McDonald’s but too small for a Walmart. Having put on 608…
A current controversial federal law allows product manufacturers to withhold the identity of untested chemicals from the public if the manufacturer has reason to believe that such public knowledge could harm business — and even…
Like most daily newspapers these days, the San Francisco Chronicle is hustling to increase declining profit margins. But let me offer some advice to my former employer: Quit gouging grieving readers as part of your…