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Off The Record

This Week: Marijuanaland; Eight months later, a new prosecutor; Mendo's budget demons; and much more

Summer Is Over

There's a door in the back of the Ten Mile Courtroom in Fort Bragg that is rarely left open. It’s behind the court reporter's desk and Judge Brennan's bench. As I sat in the gallery…

Spy Rock Memories, Part 7, Continued

Before driving back to the city, the girl I had befriended in the city and I took a walk up to a stately rock formation that was straight out of one of those misty mountain…

HumCo Preps For Prisoner Influx

The county is preparing to absorb incarceration of some of the felons now sent to state prisons and will launch programs that replace jail sentences for lower-level offenders. Approaches to realignment — the term that…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Coming up on the ballot in November will be the election of new school board members. There are already some very interesting…

Farm To Farm

Grandpa and Grandma stopped by our little homestead, rolled up the driveway in their luxury sedan, all spiffed up in Sunday duds to offer my teenaged son, Craig, and I a ride to church. “Lupe,…

The Struggle For Rattlesnake Island

The oldest human remains so far discovered in California belong to the Elem Pomo Nation who have lived on the eastern and southern shores of the Clear Lake basin for at least 10,000 years, also…

Horoscopes

Laura Hamburg’s application for her Boonville pot dispensary has shot her father in his Supervisorial foot; it has removed the Pot Brigade's most pot-friendly Supervisor from the rule drafting process.

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