Community Pet of FORUM sports digest the week Our readers write .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 ...................................Page 4 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Partly sunny 7 58551 69301 0 MONDAY March 20, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 14 pages, Volume 147 Number 345 email: [email protected] LEGISLATIVE REPORT Second Perata on campus at mendocino college woman declares on top Former head of courts running in bond for treasurer By SETH FREEDLAND debate The Daily Journal Public service is in Tania By STEVE GEISSINGER Urgin-Capobiano’s blood. MediaNews Group Her father was deputy Sacramento Bureau sheriff for Mendocino SACRAMENTO - Losers County. Her mother was a in the infrastructure bond war schoolteacher. And with her clutter the political scene, announcement this week of from the governor to regular her candidacy for Californians - except for one treasurer/tax-collector, Urgin- lawmaker who may swiftly Capobiano is raring to jump win final OK of $1 billion for back into the public sector. levees and seems to be taking After departing her last over future public works job, as county Court upgrade plans. Executive Officer, in Senate President Pro Tem September, Urgin-Capobiano Don Perata, an Oakland said she is looking forward to Democrat, emerged as the key running for the pivotal but player during the week as his largely behind-the-scenes house approved $1 billion county role. from the budget for levee With a background in pri- repairs and dismissed Mendocino College’s vate-sector business and Assembly-approved public banking finance, Urgin- works bonds that focused nar- annual juried student art Capobiano came to the courts rowly on education and flood show kicked off with an in 1993 and was charged with protection. setting up a new collections Republican Gov. Arnold opening reception on department. In her role as Schwarzenegger and Perata CEO, she was also responsi- had both proposed broader Thursday evening at the ble for a swiftly increasing infrastructure repair plans. Art Gallery on campus. budget of about $7 million. “I remain committed to Following the establish- giving voters a comprehen- Students whose work ment of the collaboration sive bond measure that efforts with collection, the addresses the long overdue was selected for the court moved to collect other investments we need to make exhibition were on hand funding, like probation fines. in transportation and schools,” Perata said. “Early to talk about their work See ELECTION, Page 14 this ... week, we will unveil our next step to move the as local residents came infrastructure bonds for- out to show their sup- ward.” Housing Analysts said Perata is now port. The show runs viewed as everything from an now through April 18. obstructionist who killed any plan in chance for Schwarzenegger’s public works bonds this year, Photos by Isaac Eckel and perhaps ruined the gover- limbo nor’s re-election chances, to a consensus builder who acts as Brooktrails to Gitlin: a check on the governor’s Come back later power. But analysts said Perata By CLAUDIA REED has left no doubt he’s the sec- The Willits News ond most powerful politician BROOKTRAILS - Brook- in the state. “This puts Perata trails board members were at center stage,” said Jack positive, negative and in Pitney, a political science pro- between over a proposal to fessor at Claremont McKenna use existing water hookups at College. Brooktrails Lodge to create Perata is the only player affordable houses for sale. that a smiling, optimistic In a presentation to the Schwarzenegger growled at Above, Gary Church’s metal board last week, lodge prop- publicly, after Perata sculpture, “icon.” At center, erty owner Dr. Robert Gitlin adjourned the upper house Patricia Barnett’s water color asked for permission to trans- without taking up the painting, “Ready, Set...” fer some of the multiple water Assembly’s bonds on educa- connections now serving multi-plex rentals to seven See BONDS, Page 14 small, new homes that would be built on the east side of the property’s internal road. The multiplex rentals, along with Public invited to comment on logging land plan existing single units, would By BEN BROWN Fisheries Service. coho salmon, spotted owls, tiger sala- In the past, individual plans have then become single-family The Daily Journal “We want to hear what the public manders and a whole host of plants. been filed for individual projects. homes, bringing the total The Mendocino Redwood has to say,” said MCR chief forester “It’s a virtual petting zoo of endan- These plans represented snapshots of number of houses for sale to Company and the California Mike Jani. “That’s how we run our gered species,” Jani said. the effect those projects were having, 19. Sale prices would not Department of Forestry and Fires will business.” A habitat conservation plan can be making it more difficult to get a wider exceed $250,000 each. be holding public scoping sessions this The company has been working on approved without approval from CDF view of how the work was effecting In order to retain some month to get public input on plans on a Habitat Conservation Plan and a of a program timberland environmen- the environment, said CDF Deputy affordable rentals available, how watersheds should be managed Natural Communities Conservation tal impact report. However, Jani said Chief for Environmental Protection Gitlin also proposed doubling and endangered species protected on Plan for the last five years. These plans the EIR will address a common criti- Allen Robertson up the 20 connected units at MCR’s land. describe how MCR will manage cism that individual plans for endan- “This will allows us to evaluate it his on-site motel to create 10 A local meeting will be held at the endangered species while harvesting gered species protection and water- programatically,” Robertson said. rentals. An existing house Ukiah Valley Conference Center from timber from the 228,800 acres of shed management do not address a In addition, the meeting will discuss would remain as is to supply 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. on March 28 and California Redwood and Douglas fir larger “holistic view.” the creation of a Master Streambed some temporary lodging. will also incorporate input from the forest MCR owns, Jani said. “The benefit of these larger plan- Alteration Agreement. Currently, “I don’t like the concept,” United States Fish and Wildlife Among the endangered species liv- ning documents is that they give the Service and the National Marine ing on MCR property are chinook and public that view,” Jani said. See PLAN, Page 14 See HOUSING, Page 14 Ukiah 468-0800 **FREE** Avoid Late Fees! Ask For Move-In Truck MakePayments Chelsea For Storage (with driver) Automatic More Details 2 – MONDAY, MARCH 20, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] between religious conservatives and reformists Paramount’s romantic comedy “Failure to over what shape Islam should take here four Launch,” which debuted at No. 1, slipped to The world briefly years after the ouster of the Islamic fundamen- second place with $15.8 million, raising its 10- talist Taliban regime. day domestic total to $48.5 million, according The defendant, 41-year-old Abdul Rahman, to studio estimates Sunday. Bush marks war anniversary Lukashenko had 87.6 percent of the vote com- was arrested last month after his family Disney’s family remake “The Shaggy Dog,” pared to 4.4 percent for Milinkevich, the accused him of becoming a Christian, Judge which premiered at No. 2, fell to third with without using the word ’war’ Central Election Commission said. The results Ansarullah Mawlavezada told The Associated $13.6 million, lifting its 10-day total to $35.9 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush virtually guaranteed a third term for the author- Press in an interview. Rahman was charged million. marked the anniversary of the Iraq war Sunday itarian leader who has ruled the republic since with rejecting Islam and his trial started This weekend’s other new wide release, by touting the efforts to build democracy there 1994. Thursday. Paramount’s “She’s the Man,” opened in fourth and avoiding any mention of the daily violence During the one-day hearing, the defendant with $11 million. The romance stars Amanda that rages three years after he ordered an inva- Fight over control of U.S. confessed that he converted from Islam to Bynes as a teen disguising herself as a male to sion. ports spurs debate about Christianity 16 years ago while working as a play on a boys’ soccer team in a modern update The president didn’t utter the word “war.” medical aid worker for an international of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” “We are implementing a strategy that will foreign ownership of America Christian group helping Afghan refugees in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, Mawlavezada said. lead to victory in Iraq,” the president assured a WASHINGTON (AP) — The furor over Illegal broadcasts interfering public that is increasingly skeptical that he has efforts by an Arab company to buy U.S. port with airline pilots in Miami a plan to end the fighting after the deaths of operations has focused attention on a little Venezuelans pose more than 2,300 U.S. troops. noticed economic fact of life: America increas- nude in public for MIAMI (AP) — Airline pilots departing Administration officials repeated the mantra ingly is foreign-owned. from Miami International Airport are getting that progress continues toward building a uni- From the ritzy Essex House hotel in American photographer an earful of something unexpected: Hip-hop fied Iraqi government and nation.