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Posts published in January 2011

Letters to the Editor

SIDEWAYS Dear Mr Parrish, I just now read your “Who Really Rules California's Wine Country?”, as I am catching up after returning to Massachusetts from…

Fogbelt Bond Shenanigans

The Point Arena Schools District held its final meeting on Gualala's elementary school and the $3.5 million bond approved in 2003 to build it.

Mmmm-mmm, Bad!

It seems that young Isaac Campbell's access to some of his grandma’s fortune might have enabled him to install a state-of-the-highly-advanced-art surveillance system at his ostensibly modest farm in Potter Valley.

‘All the Money Will be Spent’

Especially if it's public money. Count on it, but don't try to count it. The numbers will change on you. $15.25 million. That's the amount…

Whales & Predictions

The news of late has been full of predictions by economists and financial prognosticators about what may befall the national and global economies in the coming year, with the dopiest among them predicting an economic recovery, the centrists predicting a general flatness in the growth graphs, and the doomsters predicting the slopes becoming so steep as to render the pyramid an obelisk.

Farm To Farm

The open road was a welcome break from virtual confinement at Wayne’s austere ranch. The three of us followed the crowned gravel and clay contouring…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Here’s an important bit of information I was asked to pass on…

How Crazy is He? The Mind Of Jared Lee Loughner

What a bunch of garbage; liberal, Democrat, conservative, Republican. It's all there to control you! … I'm sick of it.” – from Jared Lee Loughner's…

David Gurney, Free Speech Hero

A journalist forcibly arrested for recording and speaking at a public meeting is suing the privately funded MLPAI, and state agencies. On April 20, 2010…

HumCo Planners Mull Pot Money

Humboldt County’s economy is more diverse than most people realize, the HumCo Planning Commission has been told, but assessing one of its most significant contributors…

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