The jury and all charges were dismissed last week in the vehicular manslaughter case brought by The People against Ms. Helen A. Leslie. Ms. Leslie is the very picture of a retired schoolteacher, a little…
Posts published in April 2013
The Board of Supervisors expressed plenty of skepticism during their March 12 discussion of the Exclusive Operating Area (EOA) proposal for County ambulance service. As “outreach” sessions commence around the County, all five Supervisors expressed…
A KIND OF STONER'S WOODSTOCK is on for this coming weekend as thousands of people are expected to join marijuana celebrations in Colorado and Washington, two states where the love drug has recently been decriminalized.…
MENDOCINO COUNTY'S Air Pollution Control Officer, Chris Brown, has resigned. Contrary to what the County Counsel's office is putting out as the reason for Brown's resignation, which is no reason at all, Brown's staff had…
I heard about it from a friend who, heard it from a friend who... no that's a song. This is a story about what happened earlier today. My friend told me she was hitting…
NEED FOR SPEED has finished filming in Mendocino County. Today (Saturday) a large crew was on the Ukiah-Boonville Road from about 9am until late afternoon. The story line seems pretty simple, as does the film's…
ASSISTANT DA PAUL SEQUIERA issued this terse statement Thursday on the unprosecuted murder of Susan Keegan. “It's still under investigation.” REALLY? We're not talking about the Kennedy Assassination here. We're talking about the highly likely…
RAUL ENRIQUE LULE, 43, the married father of two children, died Wednesday at the Redwood Empire Sawmill in Cloverdale. Reading between the lines of the scant press release announcing the accident, Lule seems to have…
My uncle, the late 5th District Supervisor Joe Scaramella, was an avid reader all his life. He described the county’s media during his tour in office in the 1950s and 60s as “mostly duplicative and…