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Acting Responsible

Look on the bright side. They finally found a WMD. Not in the desert wastes of Iraq, nor in the cellar of one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces. Not in an Iranian nuclear facility. In Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s underwear.

Off the Record 1/13/2010

MENDO PEOPLE close to the dope trade say “dimes were dropped” in the Schlosser case, probably lots of them. Ukiah resident Deborah Schlosser, 56, wife of Bert Schlosser of the Mendocino County Alternate Defender's office,…

Speaking of Legalization…

Tom Ammiano's pot bill, which would legalize and tax marijuana in California, finally made some headway in Sacramento yesterday--not much, mind you, but enough that there'll no doubt be a robust round of self-congratulations from…

News From the You’re-Getting-Sued-By-Sako Front

John Sakowicz, KZYX's financial media man, says we can "expect" to see him sue the North Bay Bohemian "for a retraction and a correction" by next May if the alt-weekly doesn't offer one voluntarily. "The Bohemian…

From the Blogs: The Revenge of Glenn Sunkett

Glenn Sunkett, the Oakland guy convicted last summer of orchestrating a brutal home invasion at a grow just north of Fort Bragg,  apparently got the Ukiah courthouse locked down last Friday, according to the Daily Journal:…

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