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Feds May Use Eminent Domain to Build California Dam

Early last year, four US Bureau of Reclamation officials came to Anita Lodge’s seven-acre property deep in the San Joaquin River gorge, 33 miles northeast of Fresno. They explained in careful detail the legal process…

You Pay County Pensions; Who Pays Yours?

You hear a lot of rubbish about how county employees are underpaid (ha) and that if they don’t get big raises they’ll quit and swarm down to Sonoma County (as if). I did 24 years…

2015 Through A Greased Lens

Sometimes, near enough to the summer solstice that the days acquire a certain heft and the temperature and pressure of the evenings permits an easy flow of sensory information, certain sounds and aromas transport me…

Calliope Of Hope

On Saturday February 20 at 6:30 PM, I will be at Gallery Books in Mendocino reading from the new Counterpoint Press edition of my book Buddha In A Teacup. I self-published the book seven years…

Beyond Deportation

When President Obama appointed Dollie Gee to the U.S. District Court in 2010, he undoubtedly didn't expect her to mount a frontal challenge to his administration's detention and deportation policies. But five years after her…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Feb 4, 2016

Forked Mouth;
Coach Rage;
Transparent DA;
Scrutinizing Ortner;
Shelter Meeting;
CartMan Cleone;
School Board;
Grist Vote;
Reflection;
Winter Shelter;
Yesterday's Catch;
Old Hickory;
Pension Tension;
Unraveling;
Fish v Nuts;
Noyo Headlands;
Albion Housing;
Reality Starved;
Cherub's Ball

Botany Class

Basic Botany and Plant ID: a beginning class open to all levels Anderson Valley Adult School, in the Rancheria Classroom (by bus barn) 8 Tuesday evenings from 6-9 pm February 23 - April 12, 2016,…

Denis Boardman (1948-2016)

A Veterans memorial-internment of ashes will be held Friday, Feb. 19, at 3pm at Oceanview Cemetery for Denis Lee Boardman of Fort Bragg. A memorial service honoring him will be held Saturday, Feb. 20, 11am…

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