Big Ag’s Couple Banks On Brown, Feinstein: The Resnicks Manipulate Water...
Delta advocates fear that campaign contributions from Stewart Resnick and other big water interests could heavily influence Jerry Brown, the potential winner of the gubernatorial race in the November...
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This week: Tim Lincecum and his pipe, Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty, Mendocino County's man-beater of the week, and much more.
View ArticleNorthstone Organics Targeted?
"Next week if they take my medical cannabis I will be pissed off and demand they give it back!" --Angel Raich, Northstone Organics patient Angel…
View ArticleBeyond Brown v. Whitman: The Late Great State Of California
California has been depicted as a “failed state”: leading the nation in unemployment, adult illiteracy, lowest bond ratings, the near lowest school scores, most people…
View ArticleOh The Things Our Handlers Propose To Us
Once again it’s time for us warm up for that sacrosanct American leisure activity, the trip to the polls! But since this journey always incurs…
View ArticleGiants, the Series & Duh, the Election
Count me among the folks who are seriously unmoved by next week’s looming election. Not even the marijuana legalization measure or the possible return to…
View ArticlePrint & Save: How to Vote in November
We recommend NO votes on all incumbents, beginning with Jerry Brown who, after all his years in government, is an incumbent of the ultimate officeholding…
View ArticleThe Twilight of Obama-Time
The sun rises this week on a new American landscape, the same way it rose on a new American landscape almost exactly two years ago.…
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THE FOCUS TODAY, dear reader, is on the local election results in the broader context of the great outside political world.
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Sonoma County's most prominent (and most expensive) defense attorney, Chris Andrian, couldn't keep 27-year-old Lyndsay Murray-Mazany out of three years and eight months in the state pen.
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This week: Right-wing nutters & Tucson, Mexican Dreams in Latyonville, iPhone man-beaters in Ukiah and much more
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This Week: David Eyster's promising start; Willits' blue-clay slip-slide; Jerry Brown's big lie; and much more
View ArticleBosco: The Curse That Keeps On Giving
In the more than a third of a century since Douglas H. Bosco first carved himself out as a fixture of the California North Coast's…
View ArticleState ‘Cash Crisis’ Could Stop County Payments
A state cash flow crisis has been described as inevitable and one Humboldt County supervisor has related that county workers fear that the loss of…
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GUMP TO THE RESCUE? Editor, Many times a board member or parents have asked me to become involved in the Manchester Elementary School but I…
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ANOTHER ‘CRISIS’ Editor, Jerry Brown’s plan to extend the taxes that expired on July 1 by putting them on the ballot for the public…
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This Week: Jerry Brown "hoodwinked" on Pinoleville; Allman's booming zip-ties; The Beacon's bogus accolades; and much more
View ArticleThe Great Thirst & The North Coast
Capital is mired in its greatest slump since the 1930s. The ecological fabric that sustains life throughout much of the world is being brutally eradicated;…
View ArticleGov. Brown & Mountain Lions
It’s not quite up there with Schwarzenegger’s celebrated “fuck you” to Tom Ammiano, but Gov. Jerry Brown gets off a halfway decent zinger in a…
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 25, 2012
COUNTY COUNSEL Nadel announced late Monday that the County employees bumblingly represented by SEIU have voted in favor of the proposed Tentative Agreement as have the…
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This Week: Who Bombed Judi Bari, redux; Two decades years later, still searching for Kristi Krebs; at the Fort Bragg mill site, hopes for post-industrial sanity; and much more
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