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Mendocino County Today: May 14/15

WILLIAM OPHULS, in his bracingly pessimistic book, “Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail,” identifies the primary reasons for collapse as: “Ecological Exhaustion, Exponential Growth, Expedited Entropy, Excessive Complexity, Moral Decay and Practical Failure.” Ring any bells…

In Loving Memory Of Henry Hill

The first thing I saw when I arrived at Henry Hill’s memorial was a live pink poodle on a leash with a pink haired lady in a pink satin blouse on the other end (Jonesy).…

Off The Record

KGO TV ran a major feature story about the folly of the Willits bypass on their evening news Friday night. Bypass opponents are thrilled by the blunt tone of the high-profile report which made the…

Valley People

THE GOOD NEWS. Years of barn sales and crab feeds have gotten the dedicated parishoners of St. Elizabeth Seton's Catholic Church to the design stage of their new church off Anderson Valley Way. Jerry Cox…

Mendocino County Today: May 13, 2013

OFF TRACK The Corruption Behind The Non-News At The NCRA by Mark Scaramella Even Wikipedia has an entry for the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Co. “The Northwestern Pacific Railroad is a regional railroad that serves the…

Mendocino County Today: May 12, 2013

KGO TV had a major feature story about the folly of the Willits bypass on their evening news Friday night. Bypass opponents are thrilled by the blunt tone of the high-profile report which made the…

Mendocino County Today: May 11, 2013

THE MANHUNT for Shane Miller continued Friday. As of late Friday afternoon there had been no reported sightings of the Shasta County man who shot and killed his wife and two young daughters Tuesday and…

Mendocino County Today: May 10, 2013

DOGGED INVESTIGATIONS by Frank Hartzell of the Fort Bragg Advocate reveal that a mega-bucks Florida man named Jeff Greene has bought and will re-open the Heritage House, the once glorious inn just south of Mendocino.…

Public Deal Makers

Editor, Public Defenders are a joke. This letter is for anyone being misrepresented by the Public Defender's office. I say misrepresented for many reasons: They practice no law, they just cut deals with the District…

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