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Mendocino County Today: April 7, 2013

THE NORTHCOAST'S new congressman, Jared 'Spike' Huffman, told the Press Democrat that he's raised $80,000 in re-election dough only months into his first term. Huffman, once an All-American volleyball player, said he'll need to raise…

Mendocino County Today: April 6, 2013

THE QUESTION was prompted by the frequent catch-and-release arrests of a Navarro man: “If the County Jail has empty beds, how come the judges don't keep this guy in for a while?” THIS PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL…

Mendocino County Today: April 5, 2013

A MILDLY FRAUGHT Wednesday in San Francisco began with a dead man and a bomb scare. I'd just footed it out to Baker Beach and was truckin' home along Lake when I couldn't help but…

Mendocino County Today: April 4, 2013

THIS PARAGRAPH from the Wednesday edition of the Press Democrat manages to misstate the case: “The Willits protest, in comparison, is much more tightly focused. Environmentalists contend the 6-mile Highway 101 bypass around Willits will…

Letters To The Editor

WHAT IS LOCAL? Editor, I am an Environmentalist! There I said it. I have been all my life I suppose. Ever since I learned on the back of a horse, that nature is where I…

Mendocino County Today: April 3, 2013

WARBLER was extracted with a “Dominator” cherry picker truck from the Ponderosa pine along Highway 101 she'd been sitting in for more than two months to protest the Caltrans bypass around Willits this morning, and…

Sane Man Walking

"Solvitur ambulando, St. Jerome was fond of saying. To solve a problem, walk around.” — Gregory McNamee After a severely stressful year of extreme physical challenges finally resolved by two successful surgeries, I am once…

The Soundtrack Of Imperial Revisionism

Now that the salt has finally settled to the bottom of the 2012 movie season popcorn tub, it’s time to pick through the recalcitrant kernels and send them back to the molars for last rites.…

Off The Record

A FIFTH TREE-SITTER had joined the protest late last week against the Caltrans bypass around Willits. There were five as of Monday night, none as of Tuesday (April 2nd) when all five, including The Warbler,…

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