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Palace Deal Collapses; New Buyers Emerge

In a stunning turn of events, city-supported plans of an investor to transform the historic Palace Hotel into a commercial anchor for downtown Ukiah have collapsed. Jitu Ishwar, the current owner of the derelict hotel…

Off the Record (July 19, 2023)

RECOMMENDED VIEWING: “Waco: The Rules of Engagement” which makes an irrefutable case that the ATF and the FBI deliberately shot and incinerated the Branch Davidians at their church compound in retaliation for the deaths of…

Valley People (July 19, 2023)

TRAGIC ACCIDENT Claims The Life Of Boonville Resident Arthur Hobbs IV; One Dog Retrieved At Scene, Second Dog Located After The Accident; Gofundme Set Up To Help With Expenses GoFundMe message: “Trying to get some…

What’s Next For Native Americans? 

I. Unceded Ohlone Land If you’ve attended a recent public event at a library in San Francisco you’ve probably heard someone on stage tell the audience, “You are on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land.” Last year,…

The Glory Days

When I read that the New York Times was disbanding its sport department, I gulped. One more nail in the coffin of conventional news media. So long newspapers. Hello web. Hard to believe the world…

Wayne McGimsey Remembers (March, 1998)

Wayne McGimsey takes a quick but wistful look out the large picture window of his Boonville house, strategically located between Anderson Valley Market and Lauren’s Restaurant, before he begins to talk about times past. If…

Crime & No Punishment

Recently a 44-year-old Laytonville man with a history of multiple police “contacts” was busted down in Brooktrails on several charges. Here’s the story: He’s someone well known to me and my co-workers at the Laytonville…

Is Mendo Imploding?

Watching the Board of Supervisors’ blasé attitude toward the County’s core function of property tax collection it’s hard to escape the sense that Mendo is on the verge of imploding and nobody has any idea…

Off the Record (July 12, 2023)

HEADLINE of the week from the Fort Bragg Advocate in January of ’97: “Workers OK Layoff Package.” Like they had a choice? The story is about Georgia-Pacific’s announcement of a pending lay-off of somewhere between…

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