MIKE GENIELLA: A Clarification Is Needed. Some believe the City of Ukiah intends to demolish Alex R. Thomas Plaza. A fledgling petition drive has been launched to block such a move. It is based, apparently,…
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WHEN THE GRAND JURY published that smiling photo of themselves with the Supervisors and the Presiding Judge, they were basically declaring in advance that they had no intention of independently reviewing the County’s operations or…
AVA READERS may recall our encounters with the late Yvonne Sligh when she was Mendocino College’s librarian. We clashed with the old girl when she refused to carry the AVA among her many periodicals, few…
THE FOLLOWING are two bits of timely dialogue from the excellent and eternally timely movie, ‘Margin Call.’ The first is from a vulpine CEO of a hedge fund, the second from one of his vulpine…
DA SHOOTS THE WOUNDED, BRAGS ABOUT IT Don’t Bring Drug Paraphernalia Into The Jail. A Mendocino County Superior Court jury returned from its very efficient deliberations Wednesday afternoon to announce that it had found the…
GALINA GOES INTERNATIONAL. Galina Trefil is the young-ish Coast woman burning up facebook with allegations that her father, Jon Trefil, is a serial killer and life perv. These tributes to her Dad have, predictably, garnered…
TOM YATES (The Coast): The current story in the Chronicle about the end of Dick’s Place is about one-quarter of what’s real. The news has been out there since at least January. It’s a lot…