No, no. It's not what you may think. This is a story told by my father about an experience he had while he was in college at UC Davis. It was 1928 and my grandfather,…
Posts published in July 2010
Last week we left Bess Sanderson hanging at the County Jail. We thought she’d made bail. In fact, she’d hadn’t bailed. She was still hanging Wednesday morning, and she hung for over an hour waiting…
In the Summer of 1998 an enterprising fisherman and timber worker named David McCutcheon leased a bare acre of land from Ed Colombi Sr. The acre sat off Odom Lane about a mile north of…
The news took less time to filter through the crowd of over 500 than the spark from a spliff filled with Bell Springs Blue Dream picked up by the cool afternoon breezes that meander through…
SOMETHING SHE SAID? Dear Editor, What I don't understand about the “Scourging of Helen Thomas” is why no one mentions freedom of speech. Isn't this still America? What have we come to when a much…
The hay harvest this season was too late and frantic thanks to the abundant rains. It caught me with my pants down, as they say. When I finally had a field raked and ready to…
Get Legal, Get Busted: DEA Flouts Mendocino Medical Marijuana Ordinance; Raids 1st Permit Applicant
Covelo, California, Jul 7, 2010: The DEA flouted Mendocino County's newly enacted medical marijuana cultivation ordinance by raiding the first collective that had applied to the sheriff's cultivation permit program. A multi-agency federal task force…