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Letters To The Editor

21ST CENTURY THALIDOMIDE Editor, A friend is dying of brain cancer and an unusual spinal cancer. He has been a cell-home-roam phone user on a big scale. In her path to combat this nasty impact,…

Mendocino County Today: June 14, 2012

ON TUESDAY (June 12), The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the fiscal year 2012-2013 budget recommendations as calculated by CEO Carmel Angelo and staff. The recommended budget will come back for approval in…

Mendocino County Today: June 13, 2012

THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS VOTED UNANIMOUSLY Monday to partially “de-Teeter” the Brooktrails Community Services District. The County will no longer pay to Brooktrails the assessments for sewer, water, and fire, which amount to $120 per…

Drugs & Repression

A heart in love will decipher every squiggle in a letter as a kiss. In the final days of the 2008 campaign and in the opening ones of his administration, Obama and his top legal…

River Views

It’s June and I can see trees falling on the steep slope south of the Albion River, part of a Mendocino Redwood Co. timber harvest. Fir and redwood crash to the ground in McKay Gulch…

Homelessness

I am currently in the throes of rewriting a novel I first completed in 2003, rewrote entirely in 2006, and then did not touch for six years. I have only undertaken this kind of extended…

Valley People

WITH THE SALE of Gowan's Farm Supply, and Dave and Nancy moving on to Oregon "not far south of Eugene," as Dave said Tuesday morning, Anderson Valley seems that much less Anderson Valley, less anchored…

Off The Record

A COUPLE OF MILD SURPRISES in Tuesday's election: Norm Solomon only pulled 10% of the vote as the Republican candidate, Dan Roberts, came in at about 11%, just enough to move Roberts into a November…

Mendocino County Today: June 12, 2012

PARK LANDS UP FOR GRABS — An investigative story broke Monday, June 11th, on MSNBC detailing some of the most disturbing trends across America regarding public parks. InvestigateWest, a Seattle based non-profit, details how governments,…

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