DIRT GATE! The Mendocino County Transit Authority dumped 2,500 yards of contaminated dirt at the Ukiah Fairgrounds, passing it off as “clean fill.” Prediction: MTA’s ineffable manager, Bruce Richard, will deny all knowledge as he…
Posts published in March 2012
CHRIS DIAZ of Mendocino and Amarillo, a medicinal marijuana advocate/patient, has been sentenced to three years in Texas State Prison. Diaz, 21, was arrested in Brown County, Texas, in June of 2010. There followed a…
DIRTGATE GETS DIRTIER. The following letter was sent to the Ukiah Daily Journal in response to the UDJ’s article about polluted MTA yard dirt being discovered to have been dumped at the Ukiah Fairgrounds: “I…
IF IT RAINS hard for 8 or more hours solid, as it did Tuesday, 128 at Navarro will be closed at Flynn Creek. Sure ‘nuff. The gates were drawn across the highway Tuesday afternoon and…
BOONVILLE HOMEBOY Dear Editor, I want to thank the good home town newspaper of Boonville for keeping me informed on what is going on around Mendo County. I love it when I can open up…
“In the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program around is a first-class education,” President Obama famously declared in his 2010 State of the Union Address, just as millions of high schoolers across the nation were…
Sunday afternoon I contemplated doing something productive, but decided against. Carrot sprouts are slowly emerging in the sand that is still moist after recent rains. My teenaged son wanted to try fishing in one of…