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Posts published in “Day: April 11, 2012

Mendocino County Today: April 12, 2012

RARELY do we celebrate County appointments, but we're pleased to see Karen Wandrei appointed to the second-in-command position at the Welfare (aka Health & Human…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Well, good readers, it’s good to be back from the “real world”!…

Farm To Farm

I was barefoot, shirtless, soaking in the sun while my eyes tried to focus on the spindly carrot sprouts protruding from warm sand, deliberating to…

Off The Hook

Recreational salmon fishing opened on the California coast from Horse Mountain in Humboldt County to the U.S./Mexico border on Saturday with good fishing reported by…

Toxic Sugar Politics

Every morning I put about half a teaspoon of sugar in my coffee. Then I usually do that again. And I love it. That is…

He Touched Me

Reading Bruce McEwen’s tragic Hug A Kid, Go To Jail, I thought, “My God, there but for the grace of luck and chance and (in my system of belief) the intervention of angels, I, too, might have been arrested for child molestation and been sent to prison and labeled a sex offender for the rest of my life — on several different occasions. What? How?

Speed Bumps Before A Brick Wall

New state regulations require that most diesel trucks and buses in California be upgraded to reduce particulate and nitrogen-oxide emissions. Heavier trucks must be retrofitted…

When Love Has Fled

Funny how domestic abuse can coincide with tax time.

An estranged couple by the name of Dolan has three or more kids between ’em, and one half of the former couple has been on an above-the-table payroll all year, so there’s a big refund check in the mail box any day now.

The Bari Scam Rolls On

Given the choice, I'd prefer the real Stalinism over the hippie version prevalent on the Northcoast, no better example of which was Monday night's (April…

River Views

The main office of Mendocino Redwood Company in Calpella contains a concrete enclosed room referred to as “the vault.” Along the wall opposite the vault’s…

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