From the AVA Archives: Why is Billy Mayfield Still in Jail?
Because Jerry Brown, State Attorney General, is keeping him there. Billy Mayfield should have been out in 2002 when he’d completed his 17-year sentence for second degree murder, not only completed it...
View ArticleBig Ag’s Couple Banks On Brown, Feinstein: The Resnicks Manipulate Water...
Stewart Resnick, the Beverly Hills agribusiness tycoon who owns 115,000 acres of farmland in Kern County, appears to be putting his bets on Jerry Brown as the winner of the gubernatorial race in the...
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FIRST THINGS FIRST: What’s wrong with Lincecum? Imagine yourself at age 22 suddenly nationally famous then, at age 25, a multi-millionaire. And single in San Francisco. It could throw a guy off his...
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 Raich spoke these words after Northstone Organics’...
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 on welfare, highest number of...
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 a near-blinding storm of unhappily familiar verbiage and...
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 Sacramento of a former governor who advocates a...
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Print & 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 type, much like Wes Chesbro and Mike Thompson...
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The 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. That was the dawn of Obama-time. Millions of Americans had dined...
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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. We view last week’s state and national elections as meaning an accelerated...
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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. The young...
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JERRY BROWN will do what he’s always done. He’ll squeeze services for middle and lower income people, claim he’s going for increased taxes to make up the budget deficit but set his phony taxes up in a...
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DA EYSTER is off to a great start. Prosecution policies are already a lot more sensible than they were under Meredith Lintott, who seemed to drag everyone into court who happened to get written up by a...
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 power structure, one of the surest guides to locating systemic...
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 their jobs is imminent. Suspension of state payments...
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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 believed my hands were full with being an advocate for our...
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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 to vote on fizzled. He knew that once it was on the ballot he could...
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LAST WEEK Governor Jerry Brown’s office announced that the state will allow the Pinoleville Band of Pomos north of Ukiah to build a 90,000 square-foot casino, an accompanying 72,100-square-foot hotel...
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; around 200 species go extinct every day,...
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 signing statement attached to his approval of Senate Bill...
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