This Week: Dope season & Mendo's screwy medi-pot rules; Boonville's Curmudgeons & Custer's Last Stand; the Forces Of Public Ugly & Vacuum-packed beauty; and much more
Posts published in June 2011
The police caravan that pulled up in front of Dr. Peter Keegan's house early Tuesday morning, arrived there with a search warrant. The DA said he won't comment on pending investigations, but we've learned that…
OOPS! When a Philo woman called Monday to say that three helicopters were flying low over The Valley's second city, she said, “I called you because the AVA always knows what's going on,” adding, “I…
THE MLPA BEHIND THE CURTAIN Dear Editor, Don't Look Behind the Curtain! Get Away from the Curtain! It's official: the Marine Life Protection Act “Initiative” does not exist, and it never did exist. But don't…
Hana, Maui: I could hardly believe my good fortune. The first time I traveled with Creedence to play a concert date it was in Honolulu.
The alleged purpose of UN Security Council resolution 1973, passed on March 17, was to seek to protect Libyan civilians from violent attacks by both sides. In NATO’s eager hands, cosseted by uncritical Western press…
Crime, Elmore Leonard tells us, is always half-baked and always goes off half-cocked. The popular novelist’s dictum is validated almost weekly here in Mendocino County. Last week a spectacular instance of it faced arraignment in…
“Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.” — Leonard Cohen “I'm going to ask if anyone needs an interpreter,” announced the mustached court interpreter to the morning gallery at Ten Mile Court in Fort Bragg. A…
I met with Sheriff Allman at his office in Ukiah a couple of weeks ago. He was very welcoming, told me to call him ‘Tom,’ and we sat down at a large table for our…