Back in late June, gasoline prices were soaring near $5 per gallon when a big fuel tanker was topping off the underground tanks at the Redwood gas station in the middle of Covelo. A young…
Posts published in August 2012
THE CAUSE OF DEATH on Susan Keegan's death certificate has been changed from “accidental” to “homicide,” meaning that Doctor Peter Keegan better have the criminal defense lawyer he hired soon after his wife's highly improbable…
THERE HAVE BEEN a few too many mortality reminders lately, and now Bobbie Hiatt has gone just after the loss of Harold Hulbert. Like Harold, Bobbie was always central to the Anderson Valley, a fixture…
In the early morning sunshine of August 8th, a dozen men with picket signs stood outside the AT&T central office on Franklin Street in Fort Bragg. The men were on the second day of a…
A RATHER STARTLING story in Sunday's Press Democrat describes a meeting of rural sheriffs from sparsely populated NorCal counties convened in Ukiah by Mendo Sheriff Tom Allman, the cops being some kind of offshoot of…
STAN ANDERSON isn't a bad guy. He was right to be angry that I'd taken liberties with his press releases announcing the County's Republican Central Committee meetings. But he didn't realize I was trying to…
I'M WITH KIRK GIBSON. “Players should be suspended for a minimum of a year for their first offense, and repeat offenders should just be banned.” Kirk Gibson was a great ballplayer who never resorted to…
It's been a long few days lots of us watching the live feeds from outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London waiting, waiting, waiting for the next move in the very calculated game of chess being…