Four Days On The Campaign Trail In 2012

When I picked up my press credential at St. Anselm’s College in Manchester, New Hampshire for the ABC News Republican Primary Debate on a clear Saturday night in...

Solomon & Donahue In Mendo

Last Monday, January 9, an overflow crowd of eight-score or more gathered at Ukiah’s Saturday Afternoon Clubhouse for an appearance by Phil Donahue. The legendary television host was...

The Deranged Chorus

A Catholic former US senator from Pennsylvania once rated the dumbest man in the US Congress crested Tuesday night in Iowa’s see-saw battle among candidates for the Republican...

John Walsh, Amy Goodman & Ron Paul

From John Walsh’s letter to Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, on the program’s coverage of Ron Paul: “I have a bone to pick about your coverage of Ron...

Q&A With 2nd District Candidate Norman Solomon

The 2012 election is shaping up to be of critical importance for the North Coast. If the political pundits and media talking heads are correct, 2012 will be...

Exporting Our Brains

The Chancellor was absent as University of California police kitted out in battle gear vigorously beat and arrested students and professors at on the Berkeley campus on November...

Region/National Here He Comes Again!

Here He Comes Again!

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Newt Gingrich is a one-man, made-in-America melt­ing pot. Here’s a committed devotee of tooth-and-claw capitalism, vultures perched on both shoulders, advocate of 8-year old black children working as janitors — cam­paigning with a pro-worker film...

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HumCo, Occupy & Regulating Public Gatherings

HumCo, Occupy & Regulating Public Gatherings

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Growing tension between county government and Occupy protestors who want  to camp on its front lawn has led to a proposal for an ordinance regulating public assembly on county properties. Supervisor Jimmy Smith advanced the...

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County

Mendocino County Today: January 27, 2012

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Mendocino County Today: January 27, 2012

JAMAL ANDREWS, 30, was found shot to death late Tuesday night in front of his Road B Redwood Valley home. Billy Norbury, 33, has...

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The Little Ladies Of The Hatchet

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The Little Ladies Of The Hatchet

The trial of MariCruz Alvarez-Carrillo ended ahead of schedule last week, but as of late Thursday the jury was still deliberating the verdict. Ms....

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‘America’s Last Newspaper’

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‘America’s Last Newspaper’

I decided to enroll in the journalism program at my alma mater, the University of California Santa Cruz, during the run-up to the invasion...

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Privatizing Mendo’s Parks?

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Privatizing Mendo’s Parks?

Park advocates recently got word that the state parks department was seeking authorization to request proposals from private for-profit concessionaires to manage state parks....

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Essays

Mineral Wrongs

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Mineral Wrongs

We boarded an airplane at San Jose’s Mineta Airport in December, taxied down the runway until the nose pointed to the sky and we lifted up over Silicon Valley. I watched the mountains through the small window. Soon we were over the central valley, the...

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The Dry Year

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The Dry Year

Back about 1925 or so we had a dry year, the last I remember. It quit raining in February and it didn’t rain again until the following December, after nearly a full year. It was a warm, dry year and the forest trees suffered for...

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Going Postal

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Going Postal

“I claim there ain’t Another Saint As great as Valentine.” — Ogden Nash The notices currently taped to both sides of the glass doors of the Mendocino Post Office proclaim that starting February 14, 2012, our post office will henceforth be closed on Saturdays, and postal...

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Culture

Poverty As A Crime?

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Poverty As A Crime?

If all of the homeless people in the United States formed their own city, its population would be very close to that of San Francisco — about 750,000. About 40 percent of those people are part of homeless families. The othere, single, maybe — most...

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The 49ers

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The 49ers

The New York Giants defeated the San Francisco 49ers 20-17 after ten minutes of overtime in the NFC championship game in the rain at Candlestick Park Sunday afternoon. Earlier that same day the New England Patients defeated the Baltimore Ravens 23-20 in the AFC championship...

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Letters to the Editor

Letters From The Editor

Letters From The EditorPOINT OF FACT Editor: Although I cannot speak to the incident regarding a phone call to John Coate as I was not present, the procedures...

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The Jaundiced Eye Memo Of The Week

Memo Of The Week

To: The County of Mendocino, 501 Low Gap Road, Ukiah, California To whom it may concern: This letter is religious in nature. It concerns the City of Ten-Thousand Buddhas (CCTB) located in Talmage,...

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Mamam T-ball and MLK

T-ball and MLK

I just signed the little man up for T-ball. I am going to be a T-ball mom. How radical is that? Yes, well it is what it is. My 19 year old anarchist...

Jan 11, 2012 / More »
Under The Table Going Postal

Going Postal

“I claim there ain’t Another Saint As great as Valentine.” — Ogden Nash The notices currently taped to both sides of the glass doors of the Mendocino Post Office proclaim that starting February 14,...

Jan 25, 2012 / More »
Mendocino County Today Mendocino County Today: January 27, 2012

Mendocino County Today: January 27, 2012

JAMAL ANDREWS, 30, was found shot to death late Tuesday night in front of his Road B Redwood Valley home. Billy Norbury, 33, has been arrested for shooting Andrews, who was hit twice,...

Jan 26, 2012 / More »

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