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Mendocino County Today: March 11, 2012

ROSS LIBERTY of Ukiah owns and operates a successful manufacturing business making exhaust systems for recreational vehicles. Liberty announced last week that he intends to buy ten acres at the abandoned Masonite site north of…

Mendocino County Today: March 10, 2012

FRIDAY'S Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported that former Sonoma County Fifth District Supervisor Ernie Carpenter will run for his old job. Carpenter says he’s concerned about recent decisions by incumbent Efren Carrillo that approved an…

Mendocino County Today: March 9, 2012

THE AVA RECENTLY requested that the DA's office give us access to the files on the Fort Bragg Fires of 1987. DA spokesman Mike Geniella replied that they are not where they should be, stored…

Mendocino County Today: March 8, 2012

FORT BRAGG'S CV Starr Aquatic Center has been saved. The lavish $24 million swimming pool and exercise facility was established out of a bequest by a wealthy benefactor but had proved to be more expensive…

Sunspots & Republicans

Suddenly the right has gone truly crazy. It must be sunspots. We’re three years into sunspot cycle number 24 and it crests in activity with 59 sunspots in early 2013, the weakest sunspot cycle in…

A Meth Maker’s Tale

I'd like to explain to you how I began to cook methamphetamine at the young and very impressionable age of 17. It was all unintentional, you see, and from the very beginning it's not what I set myself up to do.

Letters To The Editor

DIM BULBS Justice is being served, slowly but surely. As some may recall, my truck was broken into last June at Lake Mendocino under cover of darkness at the southern boat ramp parking lot. About…

The Voices & Views Of One Side

NPR National Public Radio. National Pay or Play Radio. Spring Pledge Drive, 2012. Hosts beg and cajole on air hour after hour, day after day for money. They creatively and with cool music in the…

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