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Off The Record 6/3/2025

SHERIFF KENDALL ON BLACK MARKET MARIJUANA: (Statement to Supervisors, Tuesday, May 22, 2025) If anybody has read the news lately they’d know that we had a lot of homicides last week. A lot of people…

Off the Record 5/26/2025

JIM SHIELDS: I have some very sad news. My good friend John Pinches has just passed away. Johnny had been hospitalized for the past week. The family is requesting a bit of time to deal…

Off the Record 5/21/2025

FRED GARDNER: The discarded book from the Larkspur Library quoted admiringly in Ed Notes…. The night before I was reading a book of essays by Gore Vidal discarded by the Oil City, Pennsylvania library in…

Off the Record 5/12/2025

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,…

Off the Record 5/6/2025

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…

Off the Record 4/30/2025

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…

Off the Record 4/22/2025

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…

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