AS STATE PARKS cut back access hours they're also closing many park restrooms as additional cost saving measures. I say privatize all public toilets! Of course the free enterpriser winning the contract would have to…
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It’s a time of celebration in Prague this month. A time to mark the November day 20 years ago when the “Velvet Revolution” erupted. A time to mark the beginning of the end of the…
The rumors aren't pretty. Like pornography, they're crass. As with any small town police investigation, they can be all-consuming. But after all the sightings and psychic readings, after the cadaver dog searches and the dozens…
Every time a judge denies a motion to suppress evidence, the judge is saying to the cop, “Good job, your methods are perfectly legal, no room for improvement; keep up the good work.” As in……
Just back from Frank's funeral. I'll never put my friends through that. Frank was Catholic, like most Mexicans. Juanita, Frank's wife, is Baptist. and Black. So we hauled Frank's ass in the hearse from one…
Here we go again. After sitting on the market for a year, the White Ranch property has sold. This time the buyer is not a predatory, out-of-town developer with his heart set on ticky-tacky boxes…
THE MENDOCINO HEADLANDS claimed another life when a young woman named Sussana Longman, 22, visiting the area from Ontario, Canada, died when she apparently “slipped into a crevice, then fell some 75 feet to the…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. I thought it was an excellent Veterans Day gesture by The Boonville Lodge last week when they bought a drink for any…
I met with Doug Read a couple of weeks ago at his home on the Valley’s unofficial ‘Mason-Dixon Line’ that separates Boonville and Philo, just north of Breggo Cellars Winery. The house, built by carpenter Doug,…