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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…

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…

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,…

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 ).…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. So how was it for you? The Sierra Music Festival that is.…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks

Kevin was born on July 4th, 1958 in Long Beach, California, to parents June Manning and Donald Crane. Both sides of the family had come to this country in the mid-to-late 1800’s, with the Manning’s settling Utah and the Crane’s in Idaho. While Kevin’s mother was not a Mormon, his Grandmother Manning was and the community where they lived, American Fork, was one dominated by Mormons since the 1850’s.

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