DA DAVID EYSTER'S sensible pot enforcement strategies were recently featured in the Daily Journal Legal News, a newspaper for the legal profession. “Under new policy, some offenders can pay restitution and plead to a misdemeanor”…
Posts published in July 2012
Throughout history, obscenely wealthy people have amassed huge concentrations of land. Mendocino County, in the year 2012, is no exception.
We didn't expect John Sakowicz's “County labor-management” show on KZYX last Friday morning to live up to the hype Sakowicz posted on the AVA's website early last week. Because? Because public radio in Mendocino County…
Ed Abbey famously declared, "No matter how bad a situation is, calling a cop can only make it worse." That attitude is widely shared in Mendocino County, especially among people who've never needed some serious, emergency muscle.…
“Laura’s Law has always been a non-starter in Mendo. We can’t afford it,” said one County official involved in the preparation for last week’s two-and-a-half-hour presentation on the “court assisted outpatient treatment” program. Advocates think…
UKIAH'S FOREST CLUB, the famous bar and retreat on State Street opposite the Courthouse, has been closed by the ABC for 30 days because an underage kid, dispatched by the ABC on a sting mission,…
HAROLD HULBERT has died. He was 67. Services will be held Friday, July 27th, at the Apple Hall, Boonville, beginning at noon. I spoke briefly with Shirley Hulbert only last week, and just as I…
The name sounds like it could be the moniker of a really bad hombre - the arrogant, cold-hearted, bandolier clad bandito in a Spaghetti Western who rides down from the mountains with his grizzled gang…