MORE THAN ONE 5th District liberal was startled to hear a commercial radio advertisement for candidate Roderick read by retiring Supervisor, Dan Hamburg, the ad paid for by inland businessman, Ross Liberty.
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SAY WHAT YOU WILL about Gavin Newsom, he's the only major candidate who not only seems to understand the magnitude of the homeless prob, but admits it's beyond the financial capabilities of local jurisdictions to…
STILL NO JUSTICE FOR KATLYN LONG On May 29 it will be ten years since 22-year-old Katlyn Long was found dead of a methadone overdose in her basement bedroom at her parents’ house in Fort…
IN MY MANY YEARS in Mendo — I arrived with the Class of 1970, the Back to the Landers, aka hippies — local elections have been lone wolf affairs, people running for this or that…
AN EXTORTIONATE threat from a young, homegrown lawyer to balkanize Fort Bragg to achieve ethnic electoral balance, inspired a nice bit of well-deserved satire by the much read Facebook page called MendocinoSportsPlus. Predictably, the reading…
THIRD DISTRICT SUPE’S candidate John Pinches missed Saturday’s debate in the friendly hometown confines of Laytonville’s Harwood Hall because, en route, as the Eel River Canyon rancher swerved to avoid hitting an elk, he hit…
FROM THE PRESS DEMOCRAT: "The Domaine Carneros 2013 Brut won Best of Show Sparkling for its bouquet of aromas, from pear and honeycomb to brioche. It offers a creamy texture, elegant structure and a long…