Mendocino Redwood Company remains chained to the practices of its predecessor-in-interest, Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, 15 years after purchasing more than 200,000 acres of Mendocino County timberland from L-P. At its inception, Mendocino Redwood Company continued to…
Posts published in April 2013
ACCORDING TO the District Attorney’s statistics, 21 people have been sentenced to serve their prison time in the local jail under “realignment” some for multiple offenses. The 21 include people convicted are for grand theft,…
THE GOLDEN SHORE, by David Helvarg is subtitled “California's Love Affair with the Sea.” This is an informal and very interesting history of the state examined from its shoreline development. If a large slice of…
OBAMACARE BAFFLES MENDO by Mark Scaramella On Monday, April 8, the Mendocino Board of Supervisors listened to two and a half excruciating hours of impenetrable categories, inclusions, exclusions, penalties, incentives, costs, wrinkles, employees, employers, coverage…
ENTITLEMENT TANKS? Tanks But No Tanks In response to Ms. Cooney's gripping drama That Kemgas allegedly inflected her with such trauma So as not to burden you busy readers Like keeping up with the exploits…
IT WAS EXACTLY ten on a recent Wednesday morning. I was on the south side of California Street waiting to board the 44, which would carry me across the park to the N Judah line.…
WITHIN AN HOUR of the Boston bombs, the conspiracy creeps were on the internet where one of the creepiest of all, Alex Jones, predictably claimed that our government had done it. Jones called the bombings…
The morning oozed in gray and wet. The monsoon sky at high tide. Clouds so wet, so low that you can feel them cold on your neck. Push off your cover. A banana leaf. Banana…
THE MARIJUANA LAWS, proposed and actual, change so often it's hard to keep up. But a useful bill introduced last by Congressman Rohrabacher, R-Orange County, is aimed at resolving the conflict between the fed's total…