A FEDERAL appeals court ruled 2-1 Tuesday that marijuana should stay on the dangerous drug roster. A medical marijuana group, Americans for Safe Access, had sued to have weed removed from the danger list. Safe…
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DA EYSTER probably already knows that lots of people want him to prosecute crimes against animals, which he has not yet done, but he may not know the extent of the anger at major instances…
A READER WRITES: “That was an interesting press release from the City of Willits announcing the departure of City Manager Paul Cayler. After praising Cayler's accomplishments and attributes the release cryptically says the City Council…
THE DEATH OF MARTIN LUTHER KING. Friends, In memory of Martin Luther King, a clip from my documentary, “1968: The Year that Shaped a Generation” (PBS, 1998) which we posted on The I Files YouTube…
FOSTER FATHER Accused In Baby's Death Had Drug Arrest By Tiffany Revelle The foster father accused of beating a five-month-old baby girl to death in December while she was in his care was in Mendocino…
REEL SHORT MOVIE REVIEW. Zero Dark Thirty. The Chron's ineffable movie reviewer, Mick LaSalle, says it's “one of the best films of 2012.” I'd say it's one of the worst but, in its way, revelatory…
THE HEADLINE on the front page of Thursday's Ukiah Daily Journal announced (again) that Bruce Richard, Mendocino Transit Authority boss, has retired after 31 years of "service." To himself. Richard was paid about a hundred…
AS A LETTER WRITER reminded us this week, in any round-up of unsolved Mendocino County murders, those of Charles ‘Buzzy’ Mitchell, 66, and his son Nolan Mitchell, 34, must be included. Mitchell Sr. was bludgeoned…
MAN BEATER OF THE WEEK: Repeat offender, Veronica Moreno of Ukiah. Ms. Moreno has smacked Mr. Moreno before, and now she's gone and done it again. Yo! Dude! Don't you know by now that when…