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Posts published in December 2012

Fracking California

California’s best kept secret since leaky pipes at San Onofre, earthquake faults under Diablo Canyon, the $54 million hidden slush fund at State Parks, and the Governator’s maid, is that the state already hosts at…

Home Care Workers Need Presidential Help

The country's 2-million-plus home care workers have been waiting a whole year now for President Obama to make good on his promise to grant them the federal minimum wage and overtime pay protections they so…

Mendocino County’s First Christmas

  Christmas Eve is with us and Christmas Day will follow. Most of us will observe the holidays in one way or another. I can remember the first Christmas tree I ever saw. It was…

The Gift Of The Old Guy

1. RAY, a slender man of eighty-two, his white hair sparse, gazes out the bus window at the passing fields. He is lost in thought, truly lost, unaware of who he is or where he’s…

A Nation Of Lone Nuts

How exceptional is the U.S.A.? Shall we count the ways? It is definitely exceptional that we can expect, on a regular basis, guys with multiple guns to walk into schools, shopping malls and even restaurants…

Off The Record

REALLY, is it necessary to hear from every media person in the country on the Connecticut event? What's to say? Have you heard a single comment or analysis that wasn't simply a statement of the…

Valley People

THE GOOD NEWS! New hires at the Anderson Valley Unified School District include: Noor Dawood, who will function as a teacher's aide at the Adult School. Logo Teveseu is now an instructional assistant at the…

Mendocino County Today: December 18, 2012

STILL AS CROOKED as a brokeback snake, Luke Breit, is again in the news. An occasional resident of Mendocino, and a former chief aide to then-assemblyman Dan Hauser, Breit was last in the news when…

Mendocino County Today: December 17, 2012

AGENDA ITEM 6b for the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors begins: “It is customary for the Board of Supervisors to honor outgoing Supervisors in recognition of their public service.” Outgoing Supervisor Kendall Smith wrote her…

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