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Posts published in January 2010

Letters to the Editor 1/27/2010

AB WATCH GOES GLOCK AVA: She's full of duty! I hope Ms. Woolsey will be issued her very own uniform, badge, radio, and Glock 40 with an autograph from Governor Schwarzenegger. She can then look…

Jail Mail

Editor, A blessing in disguise! Do I have any friends? I’d like to know. / Because the friends that I have they hurt me so. They lie and steal, they stab me in the back.…

A Richly Deserved Humiliation

Republican Scott Brown takes over a seat held by the Kennedy family for over half a century and the dark cloud already hovering over Obama's White House thickens. By any measure the energetic Brown's emphatic…

And Then There Were 31

Out of the many often clamorous voices that have defined the Northcoast MLPA process, Fish and Game has chosen 31 to rep them all.

Mendo Media

My uncle, the late 5th District Supervisor Joe Scaramella, was an avid reader all his life. He described the county’s media during his tour in office in the 50s and 60s as “mostly duplicative and…

Facebook & Football

Due to the modern miracle (or curse) that is the Internet, and due to one of its miraculous (or demonic) offshoots, Facebook, an invention which allows people to broadcast their deepest feelings minute-by-minute to friends,…

Bird’s Eye View by Turkey Vulture

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. The much-needed rains continue and it’s very, very muddy out there but so far life in the Valley has been relatively undisturbed, certainly…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Thomas ‘Tom’ Towey

I met with Tom at The Boonville Lodge in the heart of Anderson Valley, the bar/restaurant he has owned and operated for the past four years but which has now had to close due to…

Blue Skies & Greywater

This summer Arnold Schwarzenegger mandated the legalization of greywater under emergency drought measures (his best deed ever). The Department of Housing and Community Development wrote the new emergency code. With a few changes it has just been made permanent.

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