Millions of dollars of Humboldt County’s Headwaters Fund have been spent on community projects but because of loan repayments and interest, the fund’s total amount has grown. Outgoing Headwaters Fund Board Chairman Patrick Cleary told…
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I’m sorry, so sorry.... Please accept my apology... — Brenda Lee, 1960 It’s apology season. Maybe it's like the Catholic church, you go and confess, you are absolved and free to sin again. It's as…
Protestant guilt-work ethic? A cruel deception promulgated by the rich, the bosses, the early versions of the corporate exec who sits on his ass collecting bonuses while cutting the pay of the poor schmucks who…
While Mendocino County is known nationally for its embrace of sustainable agricultural practices, D.C. is taking a huge step back from three decades of aggressively pursuing water quality protections.
The latest attorney for disgraced Mendo Republican Kenny Rogers, who was convicted last summer of hiring a hitman to kill a political adversary, is claiming that Rogers' last attorney so thoroughly botched his defense that the case deserves another try.
The Groundswell following Dave Smith’s generous “Draft Scaramella for Supervisor” suggestion has been, ahem, less than underwhelming. Not one letter of support has been received for publication. And I think four, maybe five, people have…
A DEEP BOW Editor & Reed Whittemore, “I hear the loved survivors tell How naught from death could save, Till every sound appears a knell And every spot a grave.” Wrote Abraham Lincon, at 37.…
To the editor and all of those at the good old AVA: I hope all is well there. I was not going to write this story because the last one had me ending up in…
Some fights start small and build into a rage that ends in bloodshed. Others begin with a man shouting, “Hey, fuck face!” at 8am on a Saturday morning in early November in downtown Fort Bragg.…