SOMETHING SHE SAID? Dear Editor, What I don't understand about the “Scourging of Helen Thomas” is why no one mentions freedom of speech. Isn't this still America? What have we come to when a much…
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Get Legal, Get Busted: DEA Flouts Mendocino Medical Marijuana Ordinance; Raids 1st Permit Applicant
Covelo, California, Jul 7, 2010: The DEA flouted Mendocino County's newly enacted medical marijuana cultivation ordinance by raiding the first collective that had applied to the sheriff's cultivation permit program. A multi-agency federal task force…
Stone Mountain just east of Atlanta, Georgia is an enormous granite dome, five miles around at the base, circled by sheer gray cliffs which rise out of the Georgia forest. The mountain looms as large…
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” — Carl Jung My recent essay…
GUESS WHO'S coming to Navarro? Walter Trout, a blues guitar man impresario Dave Evans describes as “Guitar Shorty times ten. This guy will rock the redwoods, I promise you that. We've been trying to get…
This week: Ukiah Unified's many consultants, LaCasse tosses Boaz, Caltrans buries Willits and much more.
CHEAPER COPS? To the Editor: Most of you do not know me. I am an investigator with the Mendocino County District Attorney's Office. Prior to that I was a detective with the Mendocino County Sheriff’s…
Hi all. I’m taking a different tack this month and following up on something requested: In last week’s edition of the Anderson Valley Advertiser a local woman wrote a letter to the editor complaining about…