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Posts published in January 2014

Medical Price Gouging

An epidemic of sky-rocketing medical costs has afflicted our country and grown to obscene proportions. Medical bills are bloated with waste, redundancy, profiteering, fraud and outrageous over-billing. Much is wrong with the process of pricing…

The Conference Championships

The San Francisco 49ers game against the Seattle Seahawks at Centurylink Stadium in Seattle was a bare knuckle brawl of a football game. The Seahawks ground out a 23-17 win.

‘Go Ahead And Taze Me, Punk’

Nelson Vose began his life of crime early on, and by the time he was 31, in February of 1998, and living in Willits, he was a seasoned offender, a felon, denied the right to…

Embracing Failure

“I’ve killed more plants than anyone I’ve ever known,” he says with a smile. He learns a lot from failure. But usually the experiments fall somewhere between success and failure and this is much harder.

Caltrans & Criminal Restitution

The Parrish case is a bellwether for Caltrans’ pursuit of “criminal restitution fees” in court cases against Willits Bypass protesters.

Supes’ Belated Drought Declaration

At the Tuesday, January 7, 2014, meeting of the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, John Pinches, newly seated as Board Chair, inserted a refreshing note of reality into an otherwise self-congratulatory parade of local officials…

‘At No Cost To You’ (Part 2)

Two weeks ago I wrote about my experiences with the Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) billing department after having had a colonoscopy at that institution on November 25th of last year. Here’s the background for…

Football & Other Luxuries

The 49ers were outcoached against Seattle. Just like we were outcoached in the Super Bowl against the Ravens (e.g., first and goal on the five with time running out and what happened?). And just like we were outcoached against the New York Giants two years ago in the conference championship at home (e.g., letting the shaky Kyle Williams return punts even after the dinged-up Williams was diving all over the place. What happened?

Mendocino County Today: January 21, 2014

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN MLK…? Hi, Everyone knows where they were, etc., when JFK was shot. I'm interested in your stories of where you were, what happened, what you thought, etc., when MLK was shot.…

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