MENDOCINO COUNTY Child Protective Services failed to check the legal history of Wilson Lee Tubbs before they placed the infant girl, Emerald, with the Tubbs family. The child subsequently died of a brutal beating. If…
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A CAREFUL READING of Sheriff Allman's “Out There In The Woods,” the full account of the 2011 manhunt for double killer Aaron Bassler, caused me to wonder why the first wave of police on-scene not…
A NEW and not widely noted one percent state tax on wood products is now in effect, much to the chagrin of retailers who say they won't collect enough of it to pay their costs…
ON THE ROAD AGAIN Editor, I enjoyed Todd Walton's latest piece about Kerouac. Here is my story: Back in the late 70's I walked out of the screening of The Towering Inferno (because it was…
BIDEN'S GUN CONTROL PLAN — Buy your gat at WalMart. According to White House press releases, VP Joe Biden is considering a range of gun control proposals — including an option of working with stores…
It is in the County’s vested interest to establish a Public Bank. This would allow the County to acquire and keep for its own needs the significant benefit of credit creation, instead of lining private…
SHIELA DAWN TRACY puts a lot of time and effort into her reporting on pseudo-public radio KZYX, a mostly tax-supported non-profit radio station run by incompetents, nasty incompetents, who run the institution as if they…
WELL, IT'S NOT a face that inspires much confidence, a phrenologist might say, but it's also a face that represents the Obama administration's lack of commitment to anything resembling sensible gun policy. Most Americans probably…
EVERYONE'S pleased that the DA took one look at the police report on the alleged after-hours hijinks at the Boonville Saloon and tossed it. No charges, no nothing, as was evident at the time. Two…