Word: mendocino
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...ocratic Party try to think of a Republican nominee Al Gore might actually beat in 2000. A vision of the Republican primary campaign appears before them: George W. Bush defects to Cuba. Elizabeth Dole, purely on a whim, drops out to run a bed-and-breakfast in Mendocino County, Calif. With the rest of the field in disarray, Gary Bauer squeaks through in California to take the nomination. Greatly relieved by that vision, the Powers of the Democratic Party get out of bed and go out to raise more money for Al Gore...
Arcata (pop. 16,000) lies in the heart of the Emerald Triangle, the three lush California counties of Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity, 275 miles north of San Francisco as the spotted owl flies. In the '80s, capitalist hippies defended their marijuana plantations here with booby traps and shotguns. George Bush sent in U.S. Army troops to battle the domestic druglords. And even now, early fall is signaled less by migrating geese than by helicopters swooping over redwood forests and dropping camouflaged, machete-wielding agents into any telltale patch of sparkling green. Last year state and local officials eradicated...
Other jurisdictions, including Mendocino County, plan to follow Arcata's example, and a task force appointed by Bill Lockyer, California's new attorney general, is looking at Arcata as a possible statewide model. Although other communities might be less mellow about the idea, no dissenters showed up at public hearings when Arcata's city council--composed of two Green Party members, a Libertarian and two Democrats--approved Brown's ID system. That's to be expected, perhaps, in a town that has declared itself a "Nuclear Weapons Free Zone"; that in 1991 passed a resolution--albeit quickly rescinded--offering sanctuary...
Because allergy medications generally work best if taken before they are needed, doctors from Montauk, N.Y., to Mendocino, Calif., are advising patients to watch the pollen count and, where appropriate, get a head start on treatment. That goes double for folks who suffer from asthma, which can be aggravated by an allergic reaction...
...criminal." He also says a 1993 bombing was "Mr. Bucolic-Cottage-in-the-Countryside's first outing in several years." Was it? Gelernter should not invoke the word justice in urging the death penalty for a man yet to be tried, let alone convicted. GORDON BLACK Mendocino, Calif...