To The Editor: This concerns the EZcard money machines in the lobby of the County jail. I had $20 put on my account. After the $3.49 “convenience fee” I got $16.51. That is a fee…
Posts published in November 2009
Friends of the Boonville Lodge and the Anderson Valley community at large: It is with much disappointment, sadness and regret that Carroll Pratt and I, as owners of The Boonville Lodge, have been put into…
Mr. Huxley’s observation is the tact I hope to take in this new writing venture. But first, let me be up front. I’ve probably been around what’s called journalism too long. And I only have…
A COUPLE of phone calls to Fort Bragg officials were not returned, silent confirmation that an outside investigator based in Danville has been hired by Fort Bragg to evaluate the job performance of Fort Bragg…
The unspeakable was spoken at last Wednesday's Community Services District board meeting, beginning with an oblique suggestion that airport access fees be increased. Airport Manager and CSD trustee Kirk Wilder pointed out that the FAA…
You might call it an institution — a haven of freedom and liberty in that bourgeois airy-fairyland known as Mendocino Village. Or maybe you call it the place to take a leak after a long…
This blog derives its name from the Editor's back page of the long defunct "Environment Magazine," then edited by Sheldon Novick out of Washington University in St. Louis where I served as a contributor and…
For the third time in the past five seasons (and the fifth time in the program’s 15-year history) the AV Boys Varsity Soccer team reached the semi-final stage of the Northern California Coast play-offs. Hopes…
Marijuana cultivation is among the many issues Humboldt County’s covering in its General Plan Update but the chairman of the Planning Commission has said that impacts of indoor grows are severe enough to warrant quicker…