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Posts published in August 2010

Did John Adams Save The Day?

Before I Am Love, directed by Luca Gaudagnino and released into American movie theaters this summer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer John Adams had never written a soundtrack. In a way he still hasn’t, since…

Water Sale Idea Resurfaces

More than a year in the making, an advisory plan for using the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District’s water surplus includes an option that was torpedoed when it was proposed a few years ago —…

Marriage’s Fiercest Defenders

It took a gay Republican judge with libertarian leanings to issue from the bench, in a US District courthouse in San Francisco, one of the warmest testimonials to the married state since Erasmus. Last Wednesday…

Valley People

BILLY OWENS, an up guy, is a little down these days. His brother Jack has died, and Billy, certainly among Anderson Valley's most popular figures, has lost others lately who were near and dear to…

How to Steal $3,000

Three years ago, Supervisor Kendall Smith claimed $14,658 in travel expenses. Among the many other things the regal solon thought the taxpayers should pay for was her pet care.

Off the Record

This Week: Mendo's oldest bookstore closes its doors, Fred Gardner laments the recent arrest of SF legend Dennis Peron, Naomi Kerwin takes another walk & much more...

Ignoring Public Input

Philo’s Daniel Myers, representing Friends of the Navarro Watershed and the Mendocino Chapter of the Sierra Club, took the podium at last Wednesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting to tell the Board that the Navarro River…

The Search Warrant

David Eyster, candidate for Mendocino County District Attorney, does not enjoy the unanimous support of local law enforcement. Except for the Fort Bragg Police Department, Eyster did not get the endorsements of the Mendocino County…

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