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Time To Grow Up Oakland

Muhammad Diop was shot down in cold blood in front of his house on 864 31st street in Oakland on Thursday March 4th at 7:30pm. Muhammad Diop was murdered by the pervasive culture of violence in Oakland that is gripping our inner-cities nationwide.

Off The Record 3/11/2010

PAUL TICHININ is paid well over a hundred thousand a year — $120,000 as of 2008 — to perform a few nebulous tasks as Superintendent…

Enough Rope

It seems that Terry Cohen, age 60, is more afraid of prison than death. He's hung himself three times now on prescription chemicals, and he's still hanging in intensive care in the Ukiah hospital from his third attempted suicide.

Delayed Reactions

The odd trio of John McCowen, Ross Liberty and Mike Sweeney would be implausible any place but Mendocino County.

Spy Rock Memories, Part 3

All right, maybe I exaggerated a little bit. There were a few weeks of spring before summer hit with full superheated force. As I was…

From the Blogs: Will Kenny Rogers Get A New Trial?

The latest attorney for disgraced Mendo Republican Kenny Rogers, who was convicted last summer of hiring a hitman to kill a political adversary, is claiming that Rogers' last attorney so thoroughly botched his defense that the case deserves another try.

Off the Record

This week: The Fifth District's conservative candidate, Mr. B on Feinstein & Blum, Glenn Sunkett's Thompson problem and much more...

Our Fathers

It's still hard for some locals to accept that 150 years ago — five generations, a historical blip — Hum­boldt County was controlled by genocidaires.…

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