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Posts published in March 2010

Off The Record 3/11/2010

PAUL TICHININ is paid well over a hundred thousand a year — $120,000 as of 2008 — to perform a few nebulous tasks as Superintendent…

Fascists for Fish

The Marine Life Protection Act Initiative has come to to the North Coast, skirting the laws and making up the rules as they go.  The…

Going Amateur: B-Ball on the Mendo Coast

The school gymnasium is just as you remember it: The smell of sweat, the smell of fear; the childhood anguish of an evil room where…

Eco Libs & Eco Grain

I was reading National Geographic this morning and noticed an ad the featured something called Eco Grain. “What in tarnation is Eco Grain?” the headline…

Think Locally, Invest Locally

Not long ago the Ukiah Daily Journal ran an unsigned "In Our Opinion" column entitled "Back to the market we go." The columnist advised readers…

Enough Rope

It seems that Terry Cohen, age 60, is more afraid of prison than death. He's hung himself three times now on prescription chemicals, and he's still hanging in intensive care in the Ukiah hospital from his third attempted suicide.

Feed Pete Peterson To The Whales

Call him, just for now, Spartacus. He was two years old when the slavers captured him in 1982 and hauled him off to Oak Bay,…

Letters to the Editor

CHRISTY BOWS OUT Dear Community, To all the People of Mendocino 5th District Community, It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you…

There’s Always Hope

Dear AVA, I would just like to thank you for sending me your paper and continuing with the awesome work on your end. I only…

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