Letters to the Editor 12/23/2009
GREENHOUSE SUMMIT GAS Greetings Editor, Can anyone with some economic expertise inform me about how much (in round figures) gasoline, airplane fuel, energy, cop overtime, the use (or non-use) of many...
View ArticleOff the Record 12/30/2009
BACK ON MONDAY the 14th of December, the Board of Supervisors, as expected, voted 5-0 to allow a quarry operation on Poonkinney Road, an area lying between Highway 101 and Covelo, a very rural area not...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor 12/30/2009
EIGHT MORE BUMPY YEARS Editor, Almost of a year ago, I wrote an editorial for the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat in which I called on Barack Obama to be the hero the country so sorely needed (“We Need a...
View ArticleOpen Letter to John Coate
Dear John Coate, KZYX GM I wrote your colleague, news director Paul Hansen, a lengthy email on Dec 1 about the Mendocino Medical Marijuana Board’s concern that John Sakowicz not become KZYX’s official...
View ArticleBack on the Sako Attack
The forces for and against John Sakowicz, Mendocino County public radio’s most talked about host, are once again on the march. You may recall that after much back-and-forth between Sako and his...
View ArticleNews From the You’re-Getting-Sued-By-Sako Front
John Sakowicz, KZYX’s financial media man, says we can “expect” to see him sue the North Bay Bohemian “for a retraction and a correction” by next May if the alt-weekly doesn’t offer one voluntarily....
View ArticleValley People 1/13/2010
BOB MATHIAS was found dead Monday morning at his ranch six miles south of Boonville. Mathias was a former school superintendent and the founder of the Redwood Classic Basketball Tournament. An obituary...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor 1/13/2009
ANIMAL INSTINCTS Editor, After reading Lee Simon’s letter in the 12/30 edition, I came across the following: written by Henri Cole in the January 14, 2010 edition of the New York Review of Books. The...
View ArticleOff the Record 1/20/2010
Twenty-eight-year-old Larry Nye, of Covelo, was convicted last week of driving under the influence of marijuana. Nye is the first person in Mendocino County to be convicted, or even tried, for driving...
View ArticleThe Solipsist’s Guide To The Universe: Open Lines On KZYX
Hello caller, you’re on the air. Hey, it’s me and I’m sorry but I gotta say that your last caller was so out of it. I mean, they obviously just don’t get living here because if they did they’d realize...
View ArticleOff The Record 3/11/2010
PAUL TICHININ is paid well over a hundred thousand a year — $120,000 as of 2008 — to perform a few nebulous tasks as Superintendent of Mendocino County’s schools. The other day I was told that Tichinin...
View ArticleFarm To Farm
With the winter rains soaking deeper, evaporating, and draining into the Navarro River, the ground is nearly perfect for digging post holes and setting the timbers. It amazes me how there can be...
View ArticleMothafuggas!
Bruce Anderson on the departure of Johanna Schultz from KZYX, from this week’s Off the Record… JOHANNA SCHULTZ plays hip-hop on KZYX late at night when the children are asleep. (Or out of crank and...
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YOU WON’T want to miss this one. On Friday, June 11th, Department G in the County Courthouse, Mr. Dennis Boaz takes on Paul Tichinin and four other Mendocino County school superintendents who accused...
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Valley People
SATURDAY NIGHT, June 12th, Anderson Valley’s Community Chorus presents its annual Spring Concert at Lauren’s Restaurant, 9pm. If you get out to one event all year, you won’t go wrong with this one....
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Don Carlos Invades Boonville
This past weekend of the quarter moon, a chilly breeze tempered the usually hot June sunshine, as the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival got off to cool start. Locals noted the traffic was light Friday...
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WITH THE VOTE certified late Monday afternoon, we learned that Measure A, the $15.25 million bond to rehab Boonville’s school buildings, was approved by almost two-thirds of the Valley’s 1452...
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LUIS CERNA, 13, died Monday night surrounded by his family at the Cerna home on Anderson Valley Way, Boonville. The valiant little guy had fought for his life against a recurring brain tumor most of...
View ArticleHow I Met The KZYX News Department
KZYX is advertising for a news director. Paul Hanson has resigned. I hope Hanson’s departure wasn’t inspired by an odd few hours two weeks ago that began with Hanson’s visit to our office. Here’s what...
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IN THE EARLY 1960′s, the Reverend Jim Jones read an article in Esquire magazine that said Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Mendocino County, America, were the two best places to be during a nuclear...
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“HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JASON. I love you, Bridgett.” A young woman called this one in early Tuesday morning. I knew she was young because women over the age of 30… well, Jason, Bridgett sounded like she...
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Mendocino Media
My uncle, the late 5th District Supervisor Joe Scaramella, was an avid reader all his life. He described the county’s media during his tour in office in the 1950s and 60s as “mostly duplicative and...
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