This Week: Marijuanaland; Eight months later, a new prosecutor; Mendo's budget demons; and much more
Posts published in August 2011
LAURA HAMBURG will speak at the meeting of the Community Services District Board on Wednesday, September 21st. Visitors usually speak at the beginning of the meeting, which would put Laura on at about 5:30pm. The…
There's a door in the back of the Ten Mile Courtroom in Fort Bragg that is rarely left open. It’s behind the court reporter's desk and Judge Brennan's bench. As I sat in the gallery…
When I heard Jere Melo was shot, I was in shock. Then angry. Then sad. When news came that, yes, Jere did not survive, that he could not have survived the close-range shots from an…
Before driving back to the city, the girl I had befriended in the city and I took a walk up to a stately rock formation that was straight out of one of those misty mountain…
McCOWEN’S DISPENSARY FEES Editor, Supposing Supervisor John McCowen will take a hard line on dispensaries will entirely depend on how many fees McCowen can impose. Remember a little while ago, McCowen spearheaded the Measure B…
Editor, I'm writing to say thank you for all you've done for me and the others who benefit from your terrific newspaper. I'm also writing as a rebuttal of the piece you carried on Frances…
The county is preparing to absorb incarceration of some of the felons now sent to state prisons and will launch programs that replace jail sentences for lower-level offenders. Approaches to realignment — the term that…
I spent last week compiling, organizing, and confirming the horde of information regarding the advent of the Grist Creek Aggregates proposed gravel mine in Covelo to write the (belated) next article in what was to…