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Posts published in November 2010

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And a Happy Thanksgiving to one and all for tomorrow! What a great day – “well done!” to whoever thought of it. This Mother-of-All national…

Attention Deficit Nonsense

“Tell the children the truth.” — Bob Marley 1957. Las Lomitas Elementary School. Menlo Park, California “I invite those people with ants in their pants,” pro­claimed Mrs. Davenport, my third grade teacher, “to run to…

Sheriff’s Budget Remains Fuzzy

During the discussion of the County’s annual budget all the way back in 1994 the then-Board of Supervisors unanimously declared that the Sheriff’s “overtime budget appears to be out of kilter.” Then-Sheriff Jim Tuso had…

Levity & The Latest Plan

It's already almost Thanksgiving.  How does this happen?  It's raining in Fort Bragg.  Wait, no- it's sunny. The Day of the Dead was a great memorial.  The local public access station here in Fort Bragg…

The Sisterhood Circles The Wagons

When last we visited the $3,087 in untraveled travel reimbursements that Supervisor Kendall Smith lifted from the taxpayers of Mendocino County, The Sisterhood had already gone deep to confuse, delay, defend, and perpetually punt Smith's…

Treasure Hunt

When hand-held global positioning systems were first released to the general public, nobody but sailors knew quite what to do with the amazing new appliances. Sailors used them to find their exact positions at sea,…

Sheriff’s Log

11/7 12:45am A passerby said he'd seen a bloodied man standing on 128 near Navarro. When an officer arrived to check the man out there was indeed a 36 year old man standing by the…

Valley People

CARROLL PRATT has died. Two weeks ago, the popular Philo man fell at home, badly injuring himself. He passed away in his sleep last Thursday afternoon at Memorial Hospital in Santa Rosa. A memorial service…

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