THE USUALLY INVISIBLE State Senator, Noreen Evans of Santa Rosa, normally a kind of female Wes Chesbro, has her moments. Her alarmed letter over the looming privatization of state parks, a bunch of them here…
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THE UKIAH Police Department wants to buy a $30,000 robot, one of those things you send in to an armed tweeker's lair, say, in lieu of an automaton, er, police officer. Some of the money…
FOOTNOTE to the County’s elimination of the permit and fee portions of the 9.31 program under threats from US attorney’s office to County Counsel Jeanine Nadel. When members of the public asked what the rush…
PRESERVATION RANCH, the ghastly 1,769-acre forest-to-vineyard conversion proposed for Sonoma County in the Gualala-Annapolis area, has been put on hold, probably permanent hold. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (Calpers) has withdrawn its backing for…
JAMAL ANDREWS, 30, was found shot to death late Tuesday night in front of his Road B Redwood Valley home. Billy Norbury, 33, has been arrested for shooting Andrews, who was hit twice, fatally in…
THREE WEEKS AGO, the US Attorney's Office based in San Francisco sent one of their attorneys all the way to Ukiah to personally inform the Mendocino County Supervisors that Mendocino County officials better stop selling…
POINT OF FACT Editor: Although I cannot speak to the incident regarding a phone call to John Coate as I was not present, the procedures of the Board of Directors of MCPB follows strict Robert's…
Newt Gingrich is a one-man, made-in-America melting pot. Here’s a committed devotee of tooth-and-claw capitalism, vultures perched on both shoulders, advocate of 8-year old black children working as janitors — campaigning with a pro-worker film…
If all of the homeless people in the United States formed their own city, its population would be very close to that of San Francisco — about 750,000. About 40 percent of those people are…