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From the Blogs: Water Quality Down the Drain?

While Mendocino County is known nationally for its embrace of sustainable agricultural practices, D.C. is taking a huge step back from three decades of aggressively pursuing water quality protections.

Green Door Studio Vs. V’Canto: Round Two

Some fights start small and build into a rage that ends in bloodshed. Others begin with a man shouting, “Hey, fuck face!” at 8am on…

Off the Record 2/24/2010

This week: Lintott's glamour shot, a Kent State Truth Tribunal, Angelo enters CEOdom, Hamburg on medipot and much more...

Blood on the Tracks

The murder trials are piling up at the Mendocino County Courthouse almost as fast as the bodies are.

Fort Bragg’s Smoking Police Report

A cigarette. That's what caused the argument three years ago that lead to the federal lawsuit filed two months ago claiming a former Fort Bragg cop had altered police documents.

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Wallen Summers

Wallen Summers becomes our third guest from the Valley who was born outside the US. He ‘arrived’ in Shanghai, China, in 1932, the second child of Sarci Chen and his American wife, Ann Summers. “My father was a sophisticated, modern guy of the 1920s who had been educated at Worcester Tech in Massachusetts and upon his return to China he became an electrical engineer with his own business. My older sister and I grew up in a middle class house­hold and we were very close. She is a retired psychia­trist in San Francisco who has hung on to her Chinese roots far more than I have. She even changed her name from June back to Mai Long and to this day continues to have very negative feelings towards the Japanese after our experiences in the Second World War, perhaps because she is four years older than me and was a teenager at that time."

Saving Aaron Vargas – It May be Too Late

I don’t know Fort Bragg carpenter Todd Rowan, but I admire him. In a few short remarks quoted Sunday in the San Francisco Chronicle, Rowan…

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