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Posts published in April 2010

Building A Bypass On Shifting Sands

"Little Lake Valley (town site of Willits) is an intermontane basin within the northern California Coast Ranges that contains a record of basin sedimentation and deformation during the Pleistocene. Little Lake Valley is remarkable because…

Dredging Up Fees; Building Fences

At the beginning of last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting Fifth District Supervisor David Colfax asked if anyone knew what happened to the mud recently dredged from Noyo Harbor. “Is it dredged up material or…

Letters to the Editor

POGOISM AGAIN? Dear Bruce, In the past few issues you have printed three of my letters, all of which have expressed a very pessimistic view of the future of both America and the world. I…

Eyster: No New Evidence in Burrell Case

Jeff Burrell, the Ukiah High School teacher arrested two years ago in a high profile marijuana cultivation and possession case, was finally charged by the DA's office two months ago. Yet Burrell's attorney, David Eyster--also…

Take that, Vermont!

Vermont is the state with the most breweries per capita, with one per every 32,698 residents. Mendocino County has one per 21,555 Mendonesians. How bout them apples?

Nuts & Bolts

In Part One of this series, “A History Lesson”, about the gross mismanagement of the Mendocino County Employee Retirement Association, or MCERA, we discussed my personal history with MCERS, going back to my employment with…

This Will be Obama’s Legacy

Jeffrey St. Clair contributed to this story. With the impending departure from the U.S. Supreme Court of Justice John Paul Stevens at the age of 89, we lose one of the nation’s last substantive ties…

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