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Kendall Smith Writes A Check, Claims Vindication

Supervisor Kendall Smith, after finally writing a check for her travel not traveled, issued a statement claiming vindication that turned the truth inside out. “As a matter of principal I was interested in seeing this…

Off The Record

LAST WEEK, as the rest of us scratched our puzzled noggins, the Board of Supervisors concluded what they called their “decision making matrix,” a process steered by a volunteer “facilitator” from Ukiah named Steve Zuieback.

Neighborhood Wars

Something was happening. Courthouse security people were on their radios talking with the bailiffs upstairs in the courtrooms. The transmission said, “Tell Bruce we need to talk to him.” Uh-oh. “Talk to,” is cop-speak for…

What BoxCo Does Best

Doug Bosco was at the leading edge of a new generation of North Coast Democrats with pro-corporate, fiscal conservative economic policies--an extractive corporation's best friend.

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Wes Smoot

Having had lunch with Wes and his companion, Marianne, at the AV Senior Center a couple of Tuesday’s ago, we adjourned and went over to his home on Anderson Valley Way where we could enjoy…

State ‘Cash Crisis’ Could Stop County Payments

A state cash flow crisis has been described as inevitable and one Humboldt County supervisor has related that county workers fear that the loss of their jobs is imminent. Suspension of state payments to counties…

Off the Record

AL WHITE of Husch Vineyards, Philo, was mentioned this way in the Press Democrat of Thursday, April the 7th: “Alfred White, a Ukiah grower who described him-self as an environmentalist, said the move to regulate…

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