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Posts published in February 2010

Letters to the Editor

WHO’S THAT POUNDING? To the Editor: On January 28th at about 2:15pm I was taking a shower. About 15 minutes later there was a loud pounding at my front door. I heard some yelling from…

Disaster Capitalist University

Part Two of Will Parish's and Darwin Bond-Graham's series on disaster capitalism, UC-style.

Fake Pinot

The worldwide wine industry is abuzz with the recent conviction of a French wine combine which defrauded Gallo Wines by delivering at least 18 million bottles (the equivalent of 460 oil tanker loads) of “cheap…

PC Police 1, Alternative Media 0

The alt-weekly in Richmond, Virginia, apparently canned a reporter yesterday for being mean to a blind motivational speaker and his PR guy.

From the Blogs: Illegal Junkers & Other Strange Charges

Three interesting charges have appeared in the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Bookings lately, all of which have prompted a bit of cyber-skepticism about why a person would be arrested on such charges. Two people in recent…

Jury Hangs, Cohen Goes For Oblivion

When I first heard from a confidential source that Terry Cohen, who's accused of murdering 38-year-old Jason Piper, had overdosed, I was sworn to secrecy. But within the hour the defendant's overdose was as public as the moon.

Q&A With Matt Finnegan, Candidate for DA

Matt Finnegan talks about why he's running for district attorney, why he'd make pot trimmers felons and his dismissal from the DA's office.

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