“During depressions, assets return to their rightful owners.” — Andrew Mellon, banker, US Treasury Secretary, and intellectual father of “trickle down” tax cut ideology. “Buy on the fringe and wait. Buy land near a growing…
Posts published in February 2012
THE MENDOCINO Coast Recreation and Parks District Board has voted to close the CV Starr Aquatic Center pending a special election to fund it. The spiffy indoor pool and exercise facility opened in 2009. “The…
THE ODDLY premature communiqué a few paragraphs below was e-mailed to us Tuesday as a press release, and sent home the same day in bilingual form with elementary school children. Edu-prose ranging from fuzzy to…
KEEP THE CODE Editor, Something Wicked This Way Comes is, of course, the famous line from the Shakespearean play Macbeth, which forewarns of an impending ominous, dangerous and traitorous entity. Fast-forward from the seventeenth century,…
According to the feds, yes. But first, the Board had to pick two of three applicants for the two open seats on the Retirement Board. Incumbent Bob Mirata was unanimously re-appointed without much comment. That…
A couple of minor cases went to trial last week. How minor were they? Too minor to rate coverage, actually. Sure, they were important to the people involved, but then a tricycle mishap on the…
The shy, sandy-haired man doesn’t match the groans and apocalyptic comment his name elicits in the halls of local government. “Total psycho,” says a program administrator. “Most likely to go postal,” another official says. But…