New state regulations require that most diesel trucks and buses in California be upgraded to reduce particulate and nitrogen-oxide emissions. Heavier trucks must be retrofitted with particulate filters beginning January 1, 2012, and some older…
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Funny how domestic abuse can coincide with tax time.
An estranged couple by the name of Dolan has three or more kids between ’em, and one half of the former couple has been on an above-the-table payroll all year, so there’s a big refund check in the mail box any day now.
The main office of Mendocino Redwood Company in Calpella contains a concrete enclosed room referred to as “the vault.” Along the wall opposite the vault’s doorway sit a long line of filing cabinets, each several…
CALTRANS has been ordered by a federal judge to correct its carelessly drafted environmental analysis that would widen and realign Highway 101 through the ancient redwoods of Richardson Grove State Park in Humboldt County. Southern…
ACCORDING to the Sacramento Bee, California's deer population is down by half over the past twelve years. “Deer require a particular type of forest habitat called 'early seral.' This means they prefer to eat the…
As I drive into Anderson Valley on Highway 128 for my occasional visits, I see mental snapshots taken during my childhood in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Sheep at Hulberts. J.T. Farrer’s store in…
GIVEN THE CHOICE, I'd prefer the real Stalinism over the hippie version prevalent on the Northcoast, no better example of which was Monday night's Women's Voices talk program on KZYX, itself, along with KMUD and…
"Last year 68% of the real estate sales in the County were depressed properties. Real estate values have dropped from a mean of $400k in 2007 to under $200k in 2012, and this is of course compounded by the effects of foreclosures on surrounding property values."