THE SHOT AT MENDOCINO COLLEGE brought some heated phone calls several of which sputtered off into squawks, squeaks and bat screams as telephone service between Boonville and the outside world continues to deteriorate. Often, when…
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MARINE CORPS boot camp in the late fifties was fifteen weeks of beatings, humiliations, insults, and torture. The idea was to break recruits in San Diego before they broke somewhere else where there was shooting.…
THE DISHONEST AND INCOMPETENT PUBLIC BODIES: The Grand Jury; The Board of Trustees, Mendocino College; The Juvenile Justice Commission; Mendocino County School Board. THE BEST WRITERS ON THE WORST NEWSPAPERS: Tom Hine and Dan Hibschman,…
MY MY, AREN’T THE POT smokers getting self-righteous: Convicted Navarro dope grower, Don Lipmanson, has recommended antabuse for “the gang of three,” associated with the Anderson Valley Greens. Writing for the Commentary and apparently one…
SPORTS NOTES was presented with a terrible dilemma on a recent Saturday night, for the first time ever he had been invited to a “sweat.” A “sweat” is an ancient Boonville hippy ceremony wherein all…
YOU HAVE NOTICED by now that our alleged representatives, the people tribunes all look alike. It doesn’t matter whether Democrat or Republican, female or male, they look like a picture I saw once of Dan…
MIKE SWEENEY is paid over $100,000 a year as manager of the Mendocino Solid Waste Management Authority, meaning he's boss of the county's trash removal processes. Sweeney is also one of Mendocino County's more interesting…
CHARLES GAINES, noted nutritionist and exercise guru, recently described the physical condition of the typical American child as “scary.” Gaines said that “most ’yuppie’ parents are in terrific shape but their children are fatter and…
A VISIT TO THE ANDERSON VALLEY HEALTH CENTER LIKE MOST PEOPLE, I steer clear of the medical profession, never ever going near it unless absolutely forced to. In any case, like millions of Americans, I…