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Sustainable Viticulture?

In the fall of 2008, the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources devoted an entire 88-page edition of its quarterly magazine, California Agriculture, to profiling a trend known as “sustainable viticulture.” Broadly…

The Big Nurse & The Mother Of All Ukiah Eyesores

County CEO Carmel Angelo, a nurse by training, Big Nurse in practice, recently saw her lush contract renewed for another four years via the automatic, undiscussed consent calendar route. The Board's thinking seems to be that " The devil you know..."

Off The Record

This Week: The Rev is flabbergasted; The Pot Cops get ready; The Libs take on foreskin; and much more

They All Steal, Said The Liberal

Reading the Gualala-based Independent Coast Observer during a lunch break at the Courthouse, I was interrupted by Mark Wuerfel. This was scarcely a nuisance.

Frost Protection’s Chilling Impact

In the next few weeks, the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) is slated to release its final draft of new regulations governing water pumping for frost protection by the biologically invasive vineyard species…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Well, ‘The Turkey Vulture has landed’ as someone very famously once said. Yes, I’m back here in “paradise” after a very large…

Love Roller Coaster

The Mendocino County Science Fair prompts a trip to the West Coast's roller coaster mecca, Magic Mountain

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