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Not Far Enough

Last month Mr. James Bassler was at the podium on Low Gap Road to urge the Supervisors to adopt Laura’s Law, a mental health strategy the anguished Mr. Bassler thinks might have diverted his disturbed…

The Newspaper Did It

The AVA hit the tabletop like a flyswatter. Judge Moorman seemed to jump in her seat. To emphasize an un-filed motion, the youthfully demonstrative public defender Andrew Higgins smacked my newspaper on the defense table,…

Off The Record

LIVING PROOF of the old adage “You can't keep a good man down,” the good man we're talking about here is Vern Piver, the true mayor of Fort Bragg no matter who happens to be…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks

Dear Readers: To cut to the quick: Whilst I have thoroughly enjoy conducting these interviews over the past three years, it is a weekly commitment that I feel I need to take a break from.…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. ‘Gone but not forgotten’ — the following Valley Folk have passed in the last 15 months or so. They are fondly remembered…

Christopher Diaz Gets A Reprieve — Kind Of, Maybe, Possibly

Last Thursday, in a replay of November's extradition hearing, Deputy DA Matt Hubley presented the Texas warrant to extradite 22-year-old Chris Diaz to Texas where Diaz was arrested in June of 2010 for possession of…

Off The Record

This Week: SEIU shelves deal with county; Norman Solomon in Ukiah; The Pelosi Brigade & KPFA; and much more

Fingerprints Don’t Lie?

As the sun set on 2011, a flurry of paperwork obscured the murky gun theft from the Sanchez home on Mountain View Road, Boonville. The house was broken into and a variety of sporting arms…

The Bad News Goes Downtown

Let’s begin the new year by describing the Supervisor's latest expression of fiscal austerity, the December 12th meeting with the County’s Retirement Board. That get-together was held in the Ukiah Conference Center in Ukiah's dying…

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