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Letters To The Editor

ADNAN AS METAPHOR Editor, Our man on the spot — Adnan Farham Abdul Latif apparently accepted psychiatric medications casually left a potentially Guantanamo assisted suicide which rescued prison authorities of responsibility. Just as Athenian justice…

River Views

January 16th marks 225 years since Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment…

Four Hundred Thousand

Do you earn $400,000 of taxable income in a year? Have you ever earned $400,000 in a single year? Do you have friends who earn or have ever earned $400,000 in a year? I thought not; nor do I have friends earning that kind of money, though I do know some certifiably wealthy people.

A Kraken Awakes

Ed note: This book wasn't born in Boonville but it was birthed here on the Miner-Anderson Ranch east of town. * * * The big book of 2013, just published by Knopf, is “American Tropic”…

Mendocino County Today: January 16, 2013

MAN BEATER OF THE WEEK: Repeat offender, Veronica Moreno of Ukiah. Ms. Moreno has smacked Mr. Moreno before, and now she's gone and done it again. Yo! Dude! Don't you know by now that when…

Off The Record

CORRECTION: In last week's excellent account of the KZYX board meeting by Sheila Dawn Tracy, it was our editorial error that stated board minutes had been prepared by station manager John Coate. The minutes were…

Valley People

THERESA AVILA has been squatting at the Navarro Store for months, but she rightly points out that she's not homeless, she's landless. The poor thing isn't alone in being landless, but that's hardly consoling to…

Mendocino County Today: January 15, 2013

MENDOCINO COUNTY'S premier deadbeats, Ukiah Sativa Morrison and girlfriend, Callie Ashe, applied for temporary restraining orders against two Hopland women who made the mistake of letting Morrison and Ashe move onto their properties. A hearing…

Mendocino County Today: January 14, 2013

WE WERE SADDENED to learn of the death of George Snyder who, for years, covered the Northcoast for the San Francisco Chronicle. As graceful in person as his stylish prose, Mr. Snyder is survived by…

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