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a lie into a truth
.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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-- John Edwards
16 December 2007
Tuesday 11 March 2008

Deep End News

Slow Locals . . .
The County Administrator is "gravely concerned" about salary expenses, and well he should be.

Suggestions for the county
Don Howard letter to Ukiah Daily Journal

Second-day rehash on Tom Allman, Measure B:

Mendocino sheriff: No stance on pot vote
Mike Geniella, PressDemocrat

Plant prohibition from sativa to salvia . . .

Is Salvia the Next Marijuana?
Jessica Gresko, AP


National Nazification . . .
TPMmuckraker on domestic spy driftnet:

"Information includes data about email (recipient and sender address, subject, time sent), internet searches (sites visited and searches conducted), phone calls (incoming and outgoing numbers, length of call, location), financial information (wire transfers, credit-card use, information about bank accounts), and information from the DHS about airline passengers."

more:

NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data
Siobhan Gorman, wsj

rawstory: "Gates described as 'ridiculous' any notion that Fallon's departure signals the United States is planning to go to war with Iran."

Reuters:

"The Bush administration last month requested $515.4 billion for the Pentagon in the next U.S. fiscal year. That figure does not include extra spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or nuclear weapons programs run by the Department of Energy."


Challenger for Mike Thompson Weighs In: Meet Mitch Clogg . . .

California First Congressional District:
Mitch Clogg for Congress
mitchcloggforcongress.com


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Monday 10 March 2008
Pro-medical marijuana group’s decision to include Allman’s name in its ballot argument against repeal has forced the sheriff to issue a statement . . .

Mendocino sheriff drawn into anti-pot referendum
Mike Geniella, PressDemocrat

2006 Sheriff Election Background :
" . . . Craver made a strong political pitch for Tom Allman over Kevin Broin in the November sheriff's race.
   "After kidding Allman about being a "former narc," [MMMAB's honorary chairman, then-Sheriff Tony] Craver said, "Go with [Allman] and you won't be sorry. Kevin Broin isn't the guy for the job. You can thank Kevin for the fact that you have to go to court to get your [marijuana] back, which we didn't have the right to take in the first place. Tom Allman won't do that."

Medical marijuana board holds first meeting
Frank Hartzell, Mendocino Beacon

"Technical error at his hearing in August 2007."
Send letters care of Mendocino County District Attorney Meredith Lintott at P.O. Box 1000, Ukiah, CA 95482. Letters can also be faxed to 463-4687.

Man who set woman afire up for parole
Ben Brown, Ukiah Daily Journal

Thursday 6 March 2008
State pay hikes soar - for some:
"Four years ago, barely three dozen California state workers earned a base salary of more than $200,000. Today, as the state faces a fiscal crisis, close to 1,000 state workers make that much."

Search for a state worker's salary
sacbee.com


Slow Loc@l

The deadline for filing nomination papers in the June primary election is tomorrow, Friday at 5 pm.
   North Coast nazification, or what? . . . one mystery connected with the stories below is that the PressDemocrat and north coast MediaNews outlets don't seem to be covering it. (And what's the connection, if any -- Blue Lake is in Humboldt County -- with the semi-secret Sheriffs' pow-wows 'twixt Lake and Mendocino counties?)
   The Attorney General ought to shake up the whole north coast.
   If he does, maybe Mendocino County residents will come to understand . . . why Memo Parker -- who's kind of coffee-colored -- seems to be just about the only person in the Ukiah area (including some highly-paid public employees and adult children of political officials) who's not permitted to grow pot . . . the Mendocino County retirement system . . . that Boonville business . . . that "Covelo" business . . . the Fort Bragg taser case . . . the privatization of previously-public radio . . . why Jonestown architect Tim Stoen's still working out of the courthouse . . .

North Coast Law & Order:
Until recently, the Blue Lake [population: 1,135] Police Department had a chief, a sergeant, two officers and 27 submachine guns.

Blue Lake's gun arsenal called shocking
Thadeus Greenson/The Times-Standard

[Eureka Police Sgt. Len] Johnson said he did not recall any specifics or what the alleged second victim had contacted him about.

Gundersen, alleged second victim were living together, report says
Thadeus Greenson/The Times-Standard


Weirder and weirder . . .
watchpaul.blogspot.com:

"Gundersen's best hope is Gallegos. From all appearances, the Sheriff's Office, recognizing their own conflicts, brought the DA's Office in early because they did not want this investigation tainted -- then were blindsided by the fact that Gallegos' wife was/is involved."

more 2008:
March 4 - 6
March 1 - 4
February 24 - 29
February 20 - 23
February 14 - 18
February 9-10
January 26 - February 8
January 19 - January 26
January 12 - January 18
January 3 - January 12
1st District Rep Mike Thompson votes "Yea" on HR 1955:
2007: November 2 - 7