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Posts published in April 2013

Mendocino County Today: April 10, 2013

COUNTY SETTLES DOPE CASE WITH FEDS After a closed door session with the Board of Supervisors yesterday afternoon, the County Counsel's office issued this statement: "The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors and the United States Attorney's…

Off The Record

JACK GESSHEIDT, TREE SPIRIT OPPORTUNIST, INC., will photo shoot his next strip tease for the trees at Strawberry Rock in Humboldt County on Saturday, April 27th. Gessheidt recently staged a photo in the Willits Valley…

Valley People

ART HATCHER of AV Ambulance sent in the following: “The County of Mendocino is evaluating the feasibility of an Exclusive Operating Area (EOA) for ambulance services. The County's stated goals for Emergency Medical Services (EMS)…

Anderson Valley Artists & Friends

Anderson Valley is not only full of vineyards and wineries, it’s also home to a potpourri of artists. Diverse in subject matter and media, many, though not all, have been opening their studios to the…

Realignment Is Working

Public safety realignment — the state’s new approach to dealing with felony criminals — is being met with skepticism but its potential for reducing recidivism has been emphasized by Humboldt County’s chief probation officer. Realignment…

Inside The Willits Bypass Protests

On April 2nd, the California Highway Patrol rolled into Willits with enough force to overrun roughly a third of United Nations member states. Roughly 25 CHP squad cars deployed underneath The Warbler's pine tree south…

Obamacare Lands On Mendo

The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka PPACA/Obamacare) will go into effect in January of 2014. It's a hopelessly confusing mess of non-reform foisted off on America by the health insurance combines, and…

Dispatch From Denver

Met up with old friend Tom Woods yesterday for lunch, the only old Sausalito waterfronter in Colorado I know of since Jack the Fluke died. Tom came to with a bad hangover in Denver while…

The Illustrated Man

When Governor Jerry Brown took office the feds told him to reduce California's prison population or face sanctions, so the Governor came up with the "re-alignment" program re-aligning state prison inmates to county jails.

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