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Posts published in December 2009

Off the Record 12/30/2009

BACK ON MONDAY the 14th of December, the Board of Supervisors, as expected, voted 5-0 to allow a quarry operation on Poonkinney Road, an area…

Valley People 12/30/2009

OF ALL THE FILMS that will be shown at the forthcoming Anderson Valley Film Festival at the Philo Grange the weekend of January 29th to January 31st, don't miss Rivers of a Lost Coast, a documentary narrated by Tom Skerritt who played the Rev. Maclean in A River Runs Through It.

Courtroom Drama, 2009

On a cold dark night last winter in Fort Bragg as a chill wind whistled ashore over the chop, the cops swept into the living…

An Interview with Bryan Pearn

In 2008, 15-year-old Bryan Pearn won high honors at the California State Science Fair with a project that examined how widespread water thievery had damaged a creek near his house in Willits, California

The Killing of Alder Creek

Government dysfunction and water thieves in Willits--and the 15 year old battling them both

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Hopefully you’re enjoying the spirit of the Holidays and may Hummingbird and…

Turning Tricks; Cashing In On Fear

In the early 1970s the UN spearheaded the progressive notion of a new world economic order, one that would try to level the playing field…

Traffic Stops Gone Bad

The subject of the 4am hour of Pat Thurston's KGO Radio Show of Saturday, December 5,  was excessive traffic fines. Ms. Thurston complained that it…

More MSM Madness

I've gotten some interesting--though not unpredictable--responses to an essay I wrote a few weeks ago about how the term "mainstream media" is used as political…

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