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Time to Answer Questions About Mendo’s Debt

Mendocino County deserves a more democratic approach and participatory budgeting that fosters local buy-in for the difficult choices ahead

Letters to the Editor 2/3/2010

VEGETABLES Editor, The new trend among the thinking minority in America is local produce. People are opting for small farmer’s markets, often in suburban parking…

Happy Garden

There is a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco a few blocks from my parents’ house. The Garden is indistinguishable from dozens of other Chinese restaurants in Beijing-By-The-Bay: harsh fluorescent lights, black metal chairs that look like they were stolen from a VFW Hall in Fresno, a pair of grubby tanks in which lobsters and fish await the executioner’s pot. A place where rock cod and appetites come to die.

Valley People 2/3/2010

 UNCONFIRMED reports say the Boonville Brewery is in escrow, with the sale valued somewhere between $7 and $10 million. The Boont brews were first concocted…

Off the Record 2/3/2010

This Week: Marvin Trotter, Congressman Wine Guy, The Walmart of Weed, an MTA boondoggle and much more...

An Odd New Gallery

Tucked away, up a narrow staircase above Tangents--on the corner of Main and Laurel in Fort Bragg--sits Odd Hours, an art gallery and studio space…

The Hydroponics Monopoly & Medical Marijuana

Today, the American hydroponics industry is a rapidly growing, half-billion-dollar a year economic segment that is currently going through an important, wrenching, and necessary evolution.

Gluten-free, Loves Rabbits, Plays with Knives.

Jacob Hewko is gluten-free--but he's also one of the Mendocino Coast’s most talented and provocative young artists, breathing fresh life into the local art scene…

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