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Posts published in August 2012

The Manufactured Crisis

To understand how this scandal came about and why it may well shape the future of state parks, we have to have a plan where to dig for the basic facts (“artifacts” if you like)

Who Pays For Home Detention?

Item W on the Board of Supervisors Consent Calendar last Tuesday read: “Approval of a five-year agreement between the Sheriff's office and BI Inc. and authorization for the Sheriff to sign for an additional three…

Summer Theater, Covelo

They don’t have a playhouse in Covelo. Theater lovers have to travel to the courthouse in Ukiah to enjoy Round Valley's summer rep. “It must be a slow news week,” Justin Petersen said. He was…

Off The Record

GUALALA is the site of a major Mendocino County scandal, one that has been simmering for some time, and one that boiled over again last weekend. As best as we can piece it together, Mike…

Not So Simple Living

For most of its history, Mendocino County has functioned both economically and culturally as a kind of colony, subordinate to centers of industrial capitalism like San Francisco. Consider, for example, the following extremely limited and…

Rockabilly Rebels

The seventh annual Rockabilly in the Redwoods Festival at the miniature livestock Arena in Scotia, Humboldt County, was held during the weekend of July 20-23 as an alternative to the Ka-Ka in the River Festival…

Valley People

THAT WAS A LARGE TURNOUT Friday at the Apple Hall to mourn the passing of Harold Hulbert. But the good humor far outweighed the lamentations for this memorably solid and convivial man. If there was…

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