Word: ukiah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ukiah, Calif., voters elected the Anti-Law Enforcement candidate in a close race for the office of district attorney. Norman Vroman is an ex-con who has accumulated $1.3 million in tax liens, filed for bankruptcy twice, and supports the unqualified legalization of marijuana was chosen by the people to prosecute criminals in Medocino county. His intimate familiarity with the criminal mind (he possesses one himself) uniquely qualifies him for the job. The Associate Press attributed Vroman's victory to the fact that, "His stand on marijuana proved especially popular in rural areas." Of course...
...space. However, I wish he had looked into his soul a little harder as a U.S. Senator. He decries partisanship but demonstrated it to an extreme in his defense of Clinton's flawed presidency. Glenn will be remembered by history for space flights, not for political courage. AL BELTRAMI Ukiah, Calif...
North of Point Reyes in the rugged coastal mountains of Mendocino County, 930 firefighters and 50 engines tried to keep a 2,000-acre wildfire from a string of subdivisions in the Ukiah Valley, home to 30,000 people...
Runaways who really don't want to be found quickly adopt street names, often such crude synonyms as Lunatic, Fury, Speedster or Dopey. "Never tell anybody anything, that's my rule," says a 16-year-old from Ukiah in northwestern California. The slim, blond youth -- call him Billy -- says he spent a year living in a stairwell near the Scientology center on Hollywood Boulevard after his parents kicked him out of the house: another story of drugs and alcohol and late-night fights. On a good day, Billy earns $10 panhandling; he stuffs the money in his shoe. That...
...from his pocket and stares at it. It is a picture of his two-year-old son Matthew, dressed in a red plaid outfit and sitting in front of a Christmas tree, cheeks rolled back in an explosive smile. The child is with Billy's former girlfriend back in Ukiah. "Isn't he the cutest thing you've ever seen? I'm going back to him just as soon as I can get it together...