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Bud, Bribery & Extortion in Covelo: And the Real Crook is…
The cops say it’s Dennis Gage, busted a year and a half ago for possession and cultivation of marijuana, and for attempting to bribe the deputy who nabbed him. Gage tells quite a different story. He...
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MONTGOMERY WOODS STATE RESERVE, as it’s called, is located on the lightly traveled Comptche Road linking Ukiah to the Mendocino Coast. In the old days, it was the primary link between the County seat...
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OUR MISSING NEWSPAPERS suddenly appeared exactly seven days after all 34 bags went missing. The Post Office from Cloverdale to Petaluma says it’s mystified, but obviously someone somewhere found them...
View ArticleNew Pot Rules Create More Confusion
Mendocino County is taking another step towards legitimizing medical marijuana with new regulations for collectives. But federal law is getting in the way. Medical marijuana collectives can grow up...
View Article‘In the Kingdom of Mendocino Things Can Get Medieval’
Though there is no fury like a woman scorned, comparable emotions are engendered in Pot People when one of their own is taken down. Spurred on by what appears to have been a flurry of recent DEA-led...
View ArticleFive Questions for Tom Allman
1) WRITTEN MEDICAL MARIJUANA INSTRUCTIONS TO DEPUTIES TO BE POSTED ON THE MCSO WEBSITE Will the Sheriff’s Office create and post comprehensive written medical marijuana guidelines to deputies to be...
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Joy Greenfield & The Russians
With the opening of Angelina Jolie’s latest film “Salt” — which casts her as a double agent working for the Russians, and following the recent arrests of 12 bona fide Russian spies who had been living...
View ArticleThe Love Drug Claims Another Life
Last Thursday afternoon a nicely dressed woman carrying three A-2 assault rifles walked out of the DA’s office on the ground floor of the Mendocino County Courthouse. It was two days after Mariano...
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SHERIFF TOM ALLMAN has endorsed Wendy Roberts for 5th District Supervisor. IS THE WILLITS BYPASS a goner? Maybe, not that it was ever likely to have gone to construction. But the Army Corps of...
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Fogel & Brown ALBERT GREENWOOD BROWN was sitting in his death row cell at San Quentin last week when the warden walked up and told him he’d be dead by next Wednesday. Which has since been put off...
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Sheriff’s Budget Remains Fuzzy
During the discussion of the County’s annual budget all the way back in 1994 the then-Board of Supervisors unanimously declared that the Sheriff’s “overtime budget appears to be out of kilter.”...
View ArticleA Brief History of the Sheriff’s Budget
Back in 1994, the Board of Supervisors unanimously declared that the Sheriff’s “overtime budget appears to be out of kilter.” Sheriff Jim Tuso had spent $900,000 more on overtime than he had in his...
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Squeezing the Sheriff’s Dry Turnip
Courtesy tomallman.com Can marijuana money save the Sheriff’s budget? Can it re-juice his turnip? This Only-In-Mendo question was discussed at length at last Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting as...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor
FIRST THINGS FIRST Letter to the Editor, If you value Deputy Sheriff patrols and service write or call the Board of Supervisors (501 Low Gap Road, Room 1090, Ukiah, CA 95482; 463-4221;...
View ArticleColfax’s Last Rant
Before and after the Supervisors took a break for a tax-paid ”luncheonreception to honor David [Colfax]” at last week’s meeting, they took several hours to lay off more sheriff’s deputies, seven of...
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Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman: A Medical Marijuana Grower’s Best Friend
It’s still early in the year, the nights are cold, and outdoor pot farmers are just beginning to think about germinating seeds and planting starts. Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman is already ahead...
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A CALLER ASKED, “So, what happened to your beef with Supervisor Smith?” It wasn’t my beef with Smith, it was everyone’s beef with her and former supervisor Colfax. I took it as far as I could take it...
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WAY TO GO, NPR! Dear All Things Considered, Many thanks for yesterday’s story about the shocking revelations brought forward by Al Jazeera concerning the astounding offer made by Mahmoud Abbas to the...
View ArticleValley People
GARRETT MABERY, 18, is recovering at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital from a terrible accident late Monday afternoon. Garrett was airlifted to the hospital with injuries described by one witness as...
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SUNDAY NIGHT about 8, there was a knife assault by one kid on another at the Lifeworks Group Home, Fitch Lane, Boonville. The 16-year-old aggressor attacked a much larger 17-year-old. The victim...
View ArticleWind In The Plastic
Unremarked at last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting were several bracing personal snipes of the purely gratuitous type at a prominent Arcata-based PhD fisheries biologist named Dr. Patrick Higgins....
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ACCORDING to a report in last week’s Independent Coast Observer, Sheriff Tom Allman told coastal constituents that he was promoting long-time resident deputy Greg Stefani from Sgt. to Lieutenant....
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