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Posts published in “Day: October 15, 2014

DA Rips County Counsel

DA David Eyster’s remarks to the Board of Supervisors stunned everyone in earshot (Tuesday, Oct 7) because it’s extremely unusual in Mendocino County for a lawyer to public denounce a fellow lawyer. (Eyster made two…

Bird’s Eye View (Oct 15, 2014)

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Not much to report this week, primarily because I have not been out-and-about in the Valley much. But, I can still give…

Sharecroppers

My grandfather was a sharecropper — otherwise I would have been as ignorant of it as the pot pharmas are who practice it today. It's a holdover from feudalism, established originally in the Southeast US…

Valley People (Oct 15, 2014)

AT LAST the four-mile stretch of Highway 128 between Boonville and Philo is being repaved. Nearly two years ago, Caltrans had scraped and pitted the roadbed then, for mysterious reasons known only to Big Orange,…

More Turbulence At Coast Hospital

After sitting through the Mendocino Coast District Hospital candidates' forum on October 6th, I promised myself I'd say something positive or at least charitable about said facility. So here's what I can say: Only one…

Letters (Oct 15, 2014)

I would like to address an article recently written in the AVA by Will Parris [sic] addressing some work of mine referenced in his article. Mr. Parris suggests my referenced article somehow ignores the continuing issues affecting water quality in Clear Lake.

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