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Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all - if you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. “I was stuck in traffic in Philo” is an unheard phrase…

Pinoleville, Part II

Back in the early 2000s, I was a party to a couple of short-lived and ill-conceived lawsuits brought by Leona Williams' Pinoleville Tribal Council. Both…

Off The Record

This Week: Jerry Brown "hoodwinked" on Pinoleville; Allman's booming zip-ties; The Beacon's bogus accolades; and much more

Pros & Cons

A frantic 911 call last June alerted North County law enforcement to a drug deal that had gone bad, very bad, near Piercy, a pot…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all — if you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. I had a nice little chat last week with Valley folks,…

Farm To Farm

Across the table sat Grandpa in the straw cowboy hat he has to wear these days on account of the skin cancer that developed on…

Brandon Crawford

“The Possible’s slow fuse is lit   By the Imagination.” — Emily Dickinson While following a seemingly insignificant line of thought I will suddenly find…

Spy Rock Memories, Part 7

One of the drawbacks of dividing my time between Spy Rock and the city was the rigmarole I had to go through every time I…

Hydrilla & Uncooked Sausage

“Clear Lake is in trouble on many fronts,” reported Mendocino County Supervisor Dan Hamburg at last Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Clear Lake is in…

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