"The sucking thing." It was an incongruous phrase to hear repeated ad nauseum within the proper environs of a courtroom. Yet there it was — this reference to Kenny Rogers’ principal argument that his old lawyer was a bush leaguer and that he deserved a new trial — repeated again and again for everyone gathered […]
Tim Stelloh
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Mendo Muddle
"Consensus" isn’t a word that comes to mind with the Marine Life Protection Act, Mendocino County branch. Consider a Monday night meeting in Fort Bragg, where fishermen, seaweeders and enviros convened at St. Micheal’s Episcopal Church to do one thing: figure out which areas along the Mendo Coast to "protect" — that is, which coastline […]
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Know When To Kill Them
The village of Westport is the last outpost before Mendocino County’s northern coast disappears into a roadless swath of rugged shoreline and redwood-carpeted hills. It is spread across roughly one mile by one-half mile of coast, and has one store, two gas pumps and 47 registered voters. Retirees are Westport’s dominant demographic, and 15 miles […]