WITH HALF the County vote tallied by the indefatigable Katrina Bartolomie and her too few worker bees, the only surprise to us at ava headquarters is the Hutchins-Glentzer race for Superintendent of Schools. We assumed…
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PRESS RELEASE STATEMENT OF THE WEEK: “What IS certain is that the City of Ukiah is committed to transparency…” “the details…cannot be shared…” Both cannot be true at once. Either you’re up front about everything…
AS OF WEDNESDAY, early election returns with the first three or four thousand votes in so far showed no surprises. The Hutchins/Glentzer race for County School Superintendent as expected is close with Glentzer ahead by…
REMEMBER the three guys who showed up at Chris Brown’s Albion home in the early morning in December of last year, one of whom shot at Brown as he slept, the bullet narrowly missing his…
SOME RARE good news out of Ukiah. Ukiah's high school baseball team beat number one seed Marin Catholic, 1-0, in the regional playoffs at Marin Catholic's home field. Ukiah then beat Northgate, a school somewhere…
NEWS FROM UKRAINE tends to be either over-covered or under-covered. The over-covered news may be true but is usually selective and I find it impossible to tell if some skirmish is typical or atypical of…
DEPT of unintentional irony: Based on all the different sources, the latest best estimates of homelessness in San Francisco range from 8,000 to more than 19,000. “We all desperately need to have a much better…