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Posts published in May 2013

Mendocino County Today: May 12, 2013

KGO TV had a major feature story about the folly of the Willits bypass on their evening news Friday night. Bypass opponents are thrilled by the blunt tone of the high-profile report which made the…

Blast From the Past: A Wasteful Watershed Meeting, July, 1995

(Note: This is a typical report from a "watershed group" meeting almost 20 years ago to discuss the status of a "study" costing hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars which produced nothing but a "report"…

Mendocino County Today: May 11, 2013

THE MANHUNT for Shane Miller continued Friday. As of late Friday afternoon there had been no reported sightings of the Shasta County man who shot and killed his wife and two young daughters Tuesday and…

Mendocino County Today: May 10, 2013

DOGGED INVESTIGATIONS by Frank Hartzell of the Fort Bragg Advocate reveal that a mega-bucks Florida man named Jeff Greene has bought and will re-open the Heritage House, the once glorious inn just south of Mendocino.…

Public Deal Makers

Editor, Public Defenders are a joke. This letter is for anyone being misrepresented by the Public Defender's office. I say misrepresented for many reasons: They practice no law, they just cut deals with the District…

Letters To The Editor

BIG BOOK BARGAINS! Editor, The friends of the Willits Library present its Memorial Holiday Book Sale, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 24, 25, 26, from 10am-4pm. Sunday is $3 a bag. The big book sale…

Mendocino County Today: May 9, 2013

CONDOR By Will Parrish On the morning of Friday, May 2nd, the newest tree sit in Little Lake Valley arose in an Oregon ash grove just east of Highway 101, roughly a mile north of…

Poisons To Rethink

Round-UpĀ® (Glyphosate) The myth that glyphosate disappears harmlessly soon after application is misleading. Glyphosate kills plants by chelating the same minerals vital to all life, which is why it has been associated with laboratory and…

The High Cost Of Pot Clean-Up

Environmentally harmful marijuana production has again been documented, this time before the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, and a state official has estimated that it will cost between $3 million and $5 million…

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