On Local Government
Police blotter: Morons on the loose The Anderson Valley Advertiser is one of those local newspapers that you can enjoy no matter where you are from. It is published in Boonville, California and its politics are what one might call “curmudgeonly libertarian.” One of the joys of a trip to Mendocino, among the greatest towns on the West Coast, or any Coast, in fact, is a stop in Boonville to get the latest issue. On the masthead is the quote from Joseph Pulitzer that “newspapers should have no friends.” It is published on broadsheet and is, shall we say, eclectically art directed. It is a hoot. I came across a Google Alert from the AVA. Having not gone to the north coast in a while, I couldn’t resist. No matter how much I might have worried about whether the power of the paper’s iconoclasm would be lost as electrons, I needn’t have. Just a look at the “Sheriff’s log,” brought a sigh of relief. During the first half of October was included this citation: “10/17 2:09am Moron music boomed throughout downtown Boonville until the morons playing it were suppressed by deputies Walker and Squires.” I felt like I was there again. Looking over their site, www.theava.com, I noticed two things…
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