AS THE LONGEST preliminary hearing in County history — 18 months and counting — takes a break because the judge and witness CEO Darcie Antle absolutely had to go on vacation, I stepped back through…
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MIKE SWEENEY IN NEW ZEALAND 1990 Car Bomber And Former Mendo Trash Czar OPINIONS that San Francisco is the worst-managed city in the country are as predictable as summer fog, and inevitably cite Muni, about…
WE CAN'T SAY we weren't warned. The orange monarch is doing what he said he would do — establish America as Backwardsville. WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION? Who needs it? Global Warming? No such thing, as a…
ONE YEAR, I CELEBRATED Martin Luther King’s birthday by paying HBO $46 on a Saturday night to watch Mike Tyson knockout Francois Botha. I’d better say here that I think it’s way past time to…
JAMES M. MARMON July 4, 1954 – January 3, 2025 MIKE KALANTARIAN writes: James Marmon was quite a presence here at theava.com. From 2012 through 2024 we published 9,443 comments from him (and we must…
MENDO’S FIRST NEWBORN OF 2025 New year, newborn: Welcome the first baby of 2025 in Mendocino County. Join us in welcoming Baby Duwehni, who made his grand entrance a little after the ball dropped on…
RECOMMENDED READING: Alcatraz, the Gangster Years by David Ward with Gene Kassebaum. There are a lot of books about Alcatraz around, but this one is in a class by itself. The authors seem to be…