The Christmas tree is decorated. The presents under the tree are mounting. We're in a flurry of cookie baking & decorating, wrapping presents and eating candy canes. Meanwhile, Julian Assange has his head in the…
Posts published in December 2010
The American airwaves quiver with the screams of parlor assassins howling for Julian Assange's head. Jonah Goldberg, contributor to the National Review, asks in his syndicated column, “Why wasn't Assange garroted in his hotel room…
This week: The AVA takes Kendall Smith to court, the Covelo Flip-Out, microwave day and much more...
Can marijuana money save the Sheriff’s budget? Can it re-juice his turnip? This Only-In-Mendo question was discussed at length at last Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting as the Board and Sheriff Tom Allman took yet…
William Crawford is the target of a personal injury lawsuit brought by Nicolas 'Nick' Fross. Crawford owns McDowell Valley Vineyards in Hopland. Fross, a former lineman for Mendocino College, was stabbed in the chest at…
The "Listserves" hosted by the Mendocino School District’s private internet outfit known as Mendocino Community Network are heavily underwritten out of Mendocino's public school funds. Which is the real issue here, not that anyone has…
DAVE BROADBENT, with his wife Barbara and son Clint at his bedside, passed away early Saturday morning at his home on the Holmes Ranch. Dave had been a heavy equipment operator for Caltrans and the…
AKA, THE RICH Editor, Class warfare — The media are all fretted up over a freshman congressmen who hasn’t yet learned to keep his mouth off certain forbidden topics. Asked about the attempt by the…
Dear AVA, This is Mr. Gutmann, "The One and Only!" You might remember me from an article you published a while back titled "Something Nice" by Bruce McEwen. I was the one who was "supposed"…