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Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 2/11/2026

Showers | Ted Davis | Hill Case | Willy Pole | FB Council Meeting | Roadside Brush | Two Tributaries | Jayson Jones | Skunk Ruling | Lorene Rexrode | Remembering Dave | Local Events | LWV Meeting | Yesterday's Catch | LA Lion | Krill Kill | Craig Free | Leftist Sex | Gene Therapy | Toxic Toad | Next Generations | Elusive Fox | Pornography Prevalence | TP Halftime | Donald Review | Bunny & Gaga | Nodding Terms | Person Detained | MAGA nightmare | Young Stalin | Lead Stories | Michael Rockefeller | Free Speech | Year Nine | Half Earth | For Keeps | Unlived Life | Runaway | Such Singing | Great Poem

Assignment: Ukiah – What It Means To ‘Shop Local’

Twenty one years ago we bought a new refrigerator over at Pardini Appliance and it was a beaut: retro-style from curved corners to chrome handles, and coated in deep red airplane-grade paint. A Northstar brand…

Some Thoughts On Visiting Paris, Part 3

It was a month ago today that I stepped on a plane in Los Angeles headed for Paris. This month has allowed time to reflect. When my cousin and I toasted the New Year on…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 2/10/2026

Rain Coming | Deer | Skateboard Assault | Sexual Assaults | Crabbers Done | Candidate Green | Unusual Election | Turkeytail Display | Come a'Thistlin' | Nursing Program | Pink Show | Museum Appreciation | Yesterday's Catch | Esmeralda Meeting | Crocket Bridge | Fair Wages | Ruthless Regime | Radically Inactive | HST Breakfast | Niner Whiner | Selwyn Theatre | Epstein Survivors | Our Boy | The Grifter | Reading Newspaper | Bunny Show | Frog Prince | Dirty Kitchen | Lead Stories | ICE Polls | What Next | DIY | In View | The Wind

The Benches Of Mendocino County: Navarro Point

It would be nearly impossible for me to choose just one favorite view along the ruggedly beautiful Mendocino Coast, but I can easily pick my favorite bench found there: the ruggedly beautiful memorial to Deborah…

Am I Not Pretty Enough?

I recently attended a dinner that included a 40-something woman I have known for years as part of my extended family. I looked forward to hearing how she was doing as a mother, a wife,…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 2/9/2026

Cool & Cloudy | Remembering Sara | Senior Free-Day | Sunrise Colors | Second Protest | Recreational Center | Pitch Stream | Van Caravan | Pacific Sunset | Modern Art | Log Chain | Yesterday's Catch | Ax Shoots | No Accountability | Neal Cassady | MEAT malignancy | Lyle Talbot | Doesn’t Square | Keep Focused | Desert Home | A Tip | Secret Ingredient | He Can Stay | Palm Beach | 811 Years Ago | Beating Out | Can't Trust | Cultural Exhaustion | Bad Bunny | Ey, Auntie | Seahawks Win | Columnist Izenberg | Frets | Post Bezos | Noam & Jeff | Don & Jeff | Only Benefit | Evil Problem | Prefer Nixon | Tolstoy Legacy | Epstein Ad | Simple Matter | Lead Stories | Nature | Playing Chess | With Maduro | Abducted

Letters 2/9/2026

A lot of folks in the community wonder why Mendocino Railway’s privately owned excursion train qualifies for millions in taxpayer government subsidies. The answer — they work relentlessly propagating the fiction…

Black History Month, Lesson Plan: 1

“EthnoBotany of the Black Americans” by William Ed Grimé is a well-researched, succinct book listing 242 plant species introduced and/or used by Black slaves in the Americas. Among them were okra, peanut, akee, cannabis, African…

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