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Posts published in June 2012

Mendocino County Today: July 1, 2012

KZYX POSTED the following cryptic notice on their website last Friday: “Beginning July 1st, BBC World Service is changing its US distributor and, due to significantly increased costs, KZYX will no longer be able to…

Mendocino County Today: June 30, 2012

KZYX NEWS went off the air Friday night. Newsman Dave Brooksher has been laid off. For now, a volunteer will do a morning roundup, ala KOZT, presenting the carefully vetted “news” gathered from local corporate…

Mendocino County Today: June 29, 2012

IT TOOK TWO Press Democrat reporters to grind out the following: “About 15 acres of grasslands burned Wednesday in a wildland fire east of Ukiah, Cal Fire officials said. The blaze started at 6pm in…

Mendocino County Today: June 28, 2012

SAVE THE PEOPLE’S POST OFFICE. March, Wed. June 27, 2012. Gather 4pm at the New Federal Building in San Francisco (Seventh St. at Mission ). Civic Center BART. March to 5pm Protest in front of…

Letters To The Editor

SENTENCE CREEP To the Editor, In response to the June 13th AVA article “Two Down, One to Go: The California Murder Rule is just one example of the many questionable and redundant laws within this…

Mendocino County Today: June 27, 2012

ASSEMBLYMAN TOM AMMIANO has dropped his bill that would  regulate and tax California's medical marijuana industry. He said the bill "represents my best effort to regulate this industry that has existed in a patchwork of…

Trailer Park Blues

After months of lobbying from seniors in the Ukiah Valley, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors took up a “mobile home rent stabilization ordinance” for Mendocino County last Tuesday. Translation: Rent control for trailer parks.…

Issa v. Holder

All my life I would have felt for the Black man trying to maintain his dignity while being snapped at by a vicious Caucasian who happens to be the richest man in the United States…

Failure In Rio

The predictable word is in from Rio: failure. The conference 20 years on from the huge Earth Summit, Rio 92, has been unable to produce even the pretense of an energetic verbal commitment of the…

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