Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Unusually, let’s start off this week with our 3-Dot regular, The Old Buzzard, as he shares with us another in his insightful…
Posts published in December 2011
An elderly Arcata resident is alleging that city police illegally raided her home when they executed a search for marijuana that was based on sketchy leads. Barbara Sage, a 64-year-old medical marijuana patient, has filed…
Most everyone in the County will observe the holidays in one way or another. I can remember the first Christmas tree I ever saw and it was about the year 1900 in Murray's Hall in…
I went to Spain at the end of last summer, spending most of the time in Madrid, a fabulous city despite patches of air pollution. There's a large park, Retiro, comparable to Golden Gate Park…
“If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.” --Eminem For many people, December is the most neurotic month; and Christmas marks the apogee…
The Ukiah City Council, as predicted, slam dunked the ratepayers and gave the City waste hauler everything it could hope for in a twenty year deal for the City's waste collection and operation of the…
A garbled story last month in the Fort Bragg Advocate informed Fort Bragg that a still young, and perhaps still dangerous, man named Tony Mitchell will soon be out of prison. The family of one…
More than a hundred locals, most of them gray-haired, attended last Wednesday’s meeting to save Hendy Woods State Park. Most of the under-60 people on hand were the young persons who'd kicked the campaign…
Defense attorney Keith Faulder is a long-time friend of DA David Eyster. Faulder is also a former senior prosecutor. Faulder said recently, “I told Dave if he’s going to keep filing these shit cases, then…