If your name is Jim Chellberg and the FBI pounds on your door at 7 am, here’s what you can look forward to for the rest of the day. And the next two years. And,…
Posts published in March 2004
We ended last week's article on the Valley's home-grown methamphetamine video by suggesting that Anderson Valley could very well have been the starting-out place for hundreds of notable Americans, whose greatness could be traced to…
When Anderson Valley's 12 and 13-year-old daughters get sexually violated by some cranked-up, cretinous drug dealer, I don't think today's father gets nearly as outraged as did fathers of 50 years ago. I draw this…
New England Patriot cornerback Ty Law, who has two seasons left on a seven-year, $51 million contract, wants to renegotiate the amount of cash he gets from sick to obscene. The Patriots, anxious to keep…
Sulphur Springs lies along the old Spanish Trail. In 1840 a Ute Indian Chief and a one legged cowboy stole 3,000 head of Spain's finest horses from the missions in Los Angeles. They drove this…
When last we tuned in to the Freedman Fiasco, Ralph Freedman, Mendocino County's former Director of Child Support Services (aka the Deadbeat Dad office), had been fired by the County and was being prosecuted for…
Boonville firefighters were cursed in two languages Saturday afternoon, and that was before they showed up at Shorty Adams house in downtown Boonville to beat back a fierce outbuilding fire raging behind the popular school…
The big rig rollover that happened just as I sat down to write this and only 45 minutes ago will probably be slowing traffic for some time. Spread across both lanes on 128 about a…
Two old adversaries have squared off in the fraud case brought against Pacific Lumber Co. by Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos. In one corner is Gallegos' lieutenant, Tim Stoen, formerly of the Mendocino County…