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Tiburcio Vasquez, Highway Robber

Tiburcio Vasquez was, for a time, the best known outlaw in America and, as described in a just-released biography called Bandito by San Francisco-based John Boessenecker, certainly among the most active highway robbers in America's…

Booze, A Banker & A Bailout: The Murder Of Mark West Creek

The tragic, stranger-than-fiction story of Henry Cornell's own vineyard and proposed wine production factory reads as a distilled version of the relentless pursuit of the grape dollar by Sonoma County at large.

The 1368

The kids were sitting next to their mother in the gal­lery when daddy shuffled in chained to some other pris­oners and the guard seated them in the dock. The little girl squealed, “Look Mum —…

A Brief History of the Sheriff’s Budget

Back in 1994, the Board of Supervisors unanimously declared that the Sheriff’s “overtime budget appears to be out of kilter.” Sheriff Jim Tuso had spent $900,000 more on over­time than he had in his budget.…

Off the Record

WILL PARRISH'S truly excellent series on the wine industry can be found in its entirety at www.theava.com. It's the first comprehensive investigation of the Northcoast's dominant enterprise (apart from marijuana, of course) from a critical…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Allan Green

I met with Allan at the Greenwood Ridge Vineyards tasting room on Hwy 128, a couple of miles north of Philo. Allan was born in Los Angeles in 1949 to parents Aaron Green and Jean…

The Sisterhood Circles The Wagons

When last we visited the $3,087 in untraveled travel reimbursements that Supervisor Kendall Smith lifted from the taxpayers of Mendocino County, The Sisterhood had already gone deep to confuse, delay, defend, and perpetually punt Smith's…

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