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What’s Next For Caltrans & The Willits Bypass?

On May 7th, Caltrans goes hat-in-hand to the California Transportation Commission (CTC), which allocates funding for California transportation infrastructure projects, to request $30.986 million for the wetlands and riparian areas “mitigation” plans that I describe…

Off The Record

CRAWDAD NELSON WRITES: “I understand how easy it is to want to do something violent to an unknown perpetrator; I also get how easy it is to decide who the perpetrator is by some sort…

Valley People

DANNY AND GINGER JOHNSTON have raised three, smart, well-behaved, ambitious boys, the kind of youngsters any school district would be delighted to have in their classrooms. The Johnston's athletic son, Scotty, is now a senior…

Critical Care For Ambulances?

The Anderson Valley Ambulance Service is a local, non-profit service staffed by volunteer EMTs, providing medical transport to Valley residents for the past 50 years or so. Initially, transport was by a Pontiac station wagon,…

Obamacare Baffles Mendo

On Monday, April 8, the Mendocino Board of Supervisors listened to two and a half excruciating hours of impenetrable insurance jargon. If you're inclined to rhetorical self-abuse you'll be ecstatic at “exchange reinsurance program fees,”…

The Rambo Cocktail

Evan Morris was sentenced last week for a crime spree that ended last fall at the Forest Club bar in downtown Ukiah. Morris was already on probation for domestic abuse and driving under the influence,…

River Views

Mendocino Redwood Company remains chained to the practices of its predecessor-in-interest, Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, 15 years after purchasing more than 200,000 acres of Mendocino County timberland from L-P. At its inception, Mendocino Redwood Company continued to…

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