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Closed to the Press

In the local uproar over the Friends of the NRA fundraiser in Fort Bragg, tickets went like wildfire. I had intended to simply buy a $60 dinner and watch from a ringside seat. I really…

The Water, Not the Power

On Friday, Feb. 23 in the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors Chambers, PG&E publicly stated its ambivalence toward continuing operation of the Potter Valley Project at the Eel-Russian River Commission. Despite rumors over the last…

California Sabs Cannabis Industry

California Assembly member Jim Wood and State Senator Mike McGuire demonstrated their incompetence before a standing room only crowd on March 1, 2018 in the Ukiah Valley Conference Center. Wood and McGuire hosted the hearing…

A Capsule History Of Class K

Sketches of the heartland — the Emerald Triangle — require that we go back to the beginning. Class K Code housing started with the back to the land movement in the early 1970s when city…

The Final Indignity

Your trusty local reporter, as always selflessly volunteering for the betterment of the community, has never been thrown out of a public meeting. But, after being asked to attend the local school district's Budget Reduction…

Standley v. Ketchapaw

Many Mendocino County residents have at least heard of Doc Standley, the fearless lawman of the last decades of the nineteenth century. Some may have read about Doc's son, William Harrison Standley, who was both…

Heads, Snip, Kaboom

As a resident of the hoosegow (word nerd alert: from the Spanish juzgado, court), I've been doing a lot of things I normally wouldn't for the past six-and-a-half calendars. Number one, naturally, is spending 100%…

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