ANOTHER ‘CRISIS’ Editor, Jerry Brown’s plan to extend the taxes that expired on July 1 by putting them on the ballot for the public…
Posts published in “Day: August 3, 2011”
I arrived at the camp and waltzed into a private room with my brother and roommates, Artie and Lance. We were on the third floor of B-unit, overlooking the ball field and groves of pine and eucalyptus. Robbin had everything set up for me. He showed up in the middle of my check-in and immediately started harassing the guard (aka “hack”) in the good natured manner at which he excels.
It is surely one of the great strategic screw-ups in the history of war and intelligence analysis. In March, after the second UN Security Council…
There’s much speculation about the apparent epidemic of cancer at the County Courthouse. First to be stricken was Judge Ron Brown, who came up through…
DUKE, the big beautiful dog belonging to Nick Rossi and always to be found in the vicinity of Rossi’s Hardware Store, has bitten me a…
As last week's meeting wound down, the Supervisors delivered their typically terse, minimally-informative “supervisors reports.” Pinches sits on the Mendocino Transit Authority Board, but he’s…
Supervisor Dan Hamburg tried to puzzle his way through the County’s mental health funding at last Tuesday’s meeting of the supervisors. The dependably exasperating effort…
A camouflaged soldier in full battle fatigues walks through a dry, wooded hillside. Oak litter crunches under his feet. He is carrying an orange garbage…
The AVA talks with Hamburg about her proposed marijuana dispensary in Boonville.
This Week: A shake up at SEIU; Jim Gibbons tries to finish something; defunding the anti-pot warriors; and much more