At the Tuesday, January 7, 2014, meeting of the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, John Pinches, newly seated as Board Chair, inserted a refreshing note of reality into an otherwise self-congratulatory parade of local officials…
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Two weeks ago I wrote about my experiences with the Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) billing department after having had a colonoscopy at that institution on November 25th of last year. Here’s the background for…
Who is the moronic motorcyclist who insists on tearing along Hwy 128 at approximately 80mph just north of Boonville at various times during the week and on Sunday afternoons in particular? The noise of his engine as he roars into the distance is most unsettling as you anticipate a deafening screech and crash at any moment. Hopefully he doesn’t kill anyone and the worst that happens to him is that his bike is wrecked and he has to wear a neck brace for a few months.
My wife and I visited Boonville late last July. We came to see some friends on the weekend of the Not So Simple Living Fair, which sounded like the sort of thing we would be interested in. Perhaps humanity can survive the "cheap" carbon energy era with far fewer of us living a radically different way of life.
Last Thursday, the “ad hoc committee” recently convened by the Community Services District Board met to explore the possibility of city-style incorporation for the Anderson Valley. In a nutshell: It’s not easy. In 1969, the…
Yesterday San Francisco’s politicians announced that Google, Apple, and other Silicon Valley companies will be charged for the use of the city’s bus stops. Until yesterday the private buses, untold numbers of them, enter the…
Defense lawyers from all over the county crowded Judge Anne Moorman’s courtroom last Wednesday to hear how she would rule on this very point. An energetic free market Laytonville man named Samuel Baker stood accused of presiding over a large-scale pot op.
Let's start with penta. A pesticide and wood preservative that timber companies applied liberally at mill sites from the 1960s until it was banned from most uses in 1987, penta (or pentachlorophenol -- PCP) is…