THE GRAND JURY has taken a close look at food and nutrition at the County Jail and Juvenile Hall. In 1996 I spent a couple of weeks inside on a contempt charge conjured by DA…
Posts published in May 2013
CHRISTOPHER LASCH could have used Mendocino County as a study population for his pivotal “Culture of Narcissism” where narcissists comprise the majority of our population. In another of his books, I forget which, probably “The…
ELBOW-TO-ELBOW GUN LAWS Editor, I heard the NRA leader in Texas on radio today and realized how prevalent mental disorders are. This guy is an obsessive, compulsive guy and not a good listener either. He…
DAN HAMBURG, chairman of the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, says he’s suing Mendocino County over the Sheriff’s stated intention to both file misdemeanor charges and disinter the late Mrs. Hamburg who is buried on…
Other people’s lives come fluttering to us in the tiniest fragments, and these we gather, when we bother to, into an incoherent jumble of impressions we pass off as knowledge. Further, our ears, eyes and…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And for a change, how about we get straight into the Public Service Announcements? Calendars and pens at the ready. #341. The…
About a month ago the FBI declared Assata Shakur, a self-proclaimed revolutionary, convicted murderer and fugitive, a “terrorist” and doubled the bounty for her capture to $2 million.
The hearing at which marijuana prohibition was discussed by Congress in 1937, continued from last week's AVA. The witness, Joseph B. Hertzfeld of the Philadelphia Seed Co., testified that “Hempseed is very beneficial because it…
Yes, I read the unattractive little slips of paper that come with our monthly PG&E bill, and I have no doubt PG&E hopes most customers will toss these little slips without reading their tiny print. Why? Because most of the little slips announce rate increases for things customers should not have to pay for. There is a government entity called the CPUC, which stands for the California Public Utilities Commission, that is supposed to protect the consumer from unnecessary and unjust rate increases, but the CPUC does not protect us because they are in bed with PG&E, literally, and approve anything and everything that PG&E wants to do.