Frost Protection’s Chilling Impact
In the next few weeks, the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) is slated to release its final draft of new regulations governing water pumping for frost protection by the...
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“There wasn’t much interest. Nobody who might benefit is interested — as soon as it rains, we don’t need it. And that’s been our water policy for the last 40 years.” Supervisor John Pinches was...
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ABOUT 7:30pm Monday night a Jeep SUV crashed head-on into a redwood about 300 feet east of the Navarro Store. The driver, a Chico woman said to be about 50, was traveling west to the Mendocino Coast....
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A RAW JAH DEAL To the Editor (I am writing this from 951 Low Gap Road, Ukiah, Cell C-18.) My name is Gregg Fournier. My fiancé is Joni Liberty Speciale who I’ve been with for over eight years. On June...
View ArticleWhat Is Mendocino County’s Energy Plan?
In the grand and tangled scheme that is California’s energy infrastructure, Mendocino County is but a tiny out of the way spur. As a market for energy the county is marginal: according to the...
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YES ON BOOKS Editor, “Vote Yes on Libraries” Campaign Begun The countywide “Vote Yes on Libraries” campaign committee announced the start of its active organizing to make sure our county libraries have...
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How Wine Rules
If you’ve followed the Anderson Valley Advertiser for any length of time, you’re no doubt aware that the wine industry wields inordinate political power, not only here on the North Coast, but at the...
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Hydrilla & Uncooked Sausage
Clear Lake, courtesy Chris Pugh via Flickr “Clear Lake is in trouble on many fronts,” reported Mendocino County Supervisor Dan Hamburg at last Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Clear Lake is in...
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,...
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THE LOCAL DAILIES have heralded the September 20th hearings in Sacramento on the State Water Board’s proposed Frost Protection regs. The regulations are supposed to reduce, or at least coordinate...
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New Candidates, Old Money: The New Second Congressional Seat
Second Congressional Race: Solomon v. Huffman Candidate for the newly created 2nd US Congressional District seat Norman Solomon visited the Mendocino coast last Thursday, appearing at the Caspar...
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THE MOST INTERESTING THING about former SoCo winemaker LaMarion Spence’s idea to help wine tasters avoid DUI arrests (not mentioned in the Press Democrat’s story last week, of course) is the de facto...
View ArticleThe Real Frost Protection Conspiracy
The primary mandate of the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), a division of the California Environmental Protection Agency, is to ensure adequate water for California’s fish...
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THE JACKALS of the local media, especially at the big-toothed Press Democrat, are always happy to see pot raids on the locally prominent, especially the locally prominent they politically oppose. But...
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PONTIFICATING DISGRACES To the Editor: We’ve all seen movies about the crimes and evils concocted in corporate and political boardrooms, most of the time based on agendas cooked up behind closed doors....
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North Coast Up For Grabs
Second Congressional Race: Solomon v. Huffman The June 2012 primary is still seven months away. But that does not mean that the race among Democrat candidates for the newly drawn 2nd U.S. Congressional...
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IF YOU BUY one book this year, the book you won’t go wrong paying cash money for is Frank Bardacke’s just released “Trampling Out The Vintage,” the first book I’ve read in years that lives up to every...
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SOME PEOPLE Letter to Editor, Why People Support Laura’s Law The reason law enforcement officers across the country support Laura’s Law is because they know the people who are candidates to receive...
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BILL MANNIX has died in Santa Rosa. Bill, who was 94, wasn’t as well known in the Anderson Valley as his brother Homer, but Bill was quite well known in the outside world as one of the writers of the...
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SEIU AND THE COUNTY OF MENDOCINO, as reported here last week, reached a tentative agreement for a 10% wage cut. The ten percent deal replaces the 12.5% cut imposed by the County back in November. The...
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Here’s Why You’re Voting Yes on Measure A:
The following is information I gleaned from a mailer I received today. I was on the fence about this project but I am not any more. Regardless of what you heard about its financial troubles and how the...
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AMERICANS FILING no tax returns are called Zero-Tax Filers. There are more of them all the time: 1980 … 21.3%, 1985 … 18.5%, 1990 … 21.0%, 1995 … 24.5%, 2000 … 25.2%, 2004 … 32.6%, 2008 … 36% 2008...
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