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Farm To Farm

As far back as I can remember, birthdays have always spelled trouble for me. The minute I ever woke up I started misbehaving. These days the epiphany might not hit at all. I am only…

Pain in the Ass or Victim of the State?

David Gurney, “independent video journalist” and enemy of all things MLPA, was arrested last week at a Marine Life Protection Act meeting in Fort Bragg for “disrupting a legal assembly.”

Building A Bypass On Shifting Sands

"Little Lake Valley (town site of Willits) is an intermontane basin within the northern California Coast Ranges that contains a record of basin sedimentation and deformation during the Pleistocene. Little Lake Valley is remarkable because…

Eyster: No New Evidence in Burrell Case

Jeff Burrell, the Ukiah High School teacher arrested two years ago in a high profile marijuana cultivation and possession case, was finally charged by the DA's office two months ago. Yet Burrell's attorney, David Eyster--also…

Take that, Vermont!

Vermont is the state with the most breweries per capita, with one per every 32,698 residents. Mendocino County has one per 21,555 Mendonesians. How bout them apples?

Nuts & Bolts

In Part One of this series, “A History Lesson”, about the gross mismanagement of the Mendocino County Employee Retirement Association, or MCERA, we discussed my personal history with MCERS, going back to my employment with…

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