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Posts published in October 2018

Gangbusters

Born and raised in Mendocino County, Mendocino County Detective Sergeant Luis Espinoza has spent the last eight years in local law enforcement, most recently in a small group specializing in gangs: investigating, arresting, heading off…

A Preliminary Assessment of the November Election

(AVA’s current preferences are in bold type — subject to change.)

Supervisors:

Pinches because he's frugal, creative, truly independent.

Williams, although so far it's unclear why he wants to be a supervisor beyond the usual lib platitudes.

Finding A Home For History

Primary resources, in a historian’s world, are original materials upon which researchers can study to begin writing books or articles about any person or subject. If someone collected my handwritten draft of this newspaper story…

Imaginary Monsters & The Uses Of Chaos

The Kavanaugh hearing underscored another eerie condition in contemporary USA life that offers clues about the combined social, economic, and political collapse that I call The Long Emergency: the destruction of all remaining categorical boundaries for…

Bollocks to Brexit: The Plumber Sings

Lambeth, London — That Frank Sinatra’s recording of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and Bobby Darin’s “Splish Splash I was Takin’ a Bath” are both among Charlie Mullins’s declared musical favorites might come as something…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018

Raises Approved;
Rotten Friend;
Little Dog;
Shelter Delays;
Code Enforcement;
Bulldog Pinches;
Bookstore Change;
Legal Growers;
Yesterday's Catch;
Brothers Trimm;
2020 Dems;
Cry Poor;
Acceptable Opinion;
Grammer Returns;
Ripening Quince;
Gavin Rail;
Not Interested;
Housing Homeless;
Meetings Canceled;
Imagine;
Statue Debate;
Bigfoot Babe;
Canillar Opening

County Notes (Oct. 3, 2018)

FOUR (COUNT ‘EM) AUTOMATIC PAY RAISES FOR CEO Carmel Angelo have been put on next Tuesday’s consent calendar by the beneficiary herself. Consent Calendar Item 4b) “Approval of Agreement Amendment for Carmel J. Angelo to…

A Willits Business Dinner

Going back a few weeks to the preliminary hearing for the three defendants from Oakland accused of a Willits home invasion robbery early last July – yes, it was about marijuana. In the first installment…

Off the Record (Oct. 3, 2018)

THE MIGHTY AVA recommends these three candidates for the Coast Hospital Board — Jessica Grinberg, John Redding, Karen Arnold. If Coast can be saved as the great little community-owned hospital it has been for many years, this trio will go a long way to saving it.

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