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Posts published in “Day: September 28, 2016

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016

Oilfire Update;
Mendojuana County;
Soma;
Ukiah Parolee;
$1500/Pound;
Professional Trimmer;
AF Meetings;
Boonville Donut;
Hollow Earth;
McFadden Furniture;
Hanes Sentencing;
Truck Problem;
Yesterday's Catch;
Airport Cop;
Antiestablishmentarianism;
Dance Party;
Amazon Crude;
Foodshed Shindig;
Lead Pollution;
Honolulu Birthday

Letters (Sept. 28, 2016)

I am wondering why there has been no more information about Blackbird Farms and their permit application.

Anderson Valley has a not-so-great history with negative experiences for children and youth in “caring-for-you” facilities. As a community, we need to clearly understand who is doing what and why. This kind of operation absoltuely needs community endorsement before it expands.

Watermelons Come Full Circle

High pressure lingers over the Ohio valley, finally, after the most humid summer I can recall. Mildew and insects thrived. The yellow chanterelle mushroom harvest,…

Hurts, Don’t It?

Children love to play pranks on one another, and the more painful and humiliating, the better. They are ridiculously transparent ruses, for the most part,…

My First Paying Job

I was 13. It was 1958. We lived at what was then the outskirts of suburban Fresno. Down the street about half a mile was…

Booksellers

My daughter and I returned to Paris under the blazing sun of July. We were coming from Burgundy, where I had written a sad, angry note for this column, after the mass murder in Nice, about how our cultural baggage is obsolete and doesn't help us face the horror of our times; about how the myth of Paris had died in our arms. But I was wrong about one thing. Because, although culture in the abstract no longer anchors us to this complex, fucked-up world, there do in fact remain places--a few--from which we can rethink our role in the world and imagine alternate ways of organizing life.

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016

Bronwen Sentenced;
Emergency Test;
Sawmill Fire;
Debate Notes;
Measure AG;
Gym;
Defending Ranochak;
Writer Denunciation;
Candidate Forum;
Nomination Extension;
Props 52-54;
Winery Mergers;
Police Reports;
Yesterday's Catch;
Misdemeanor Crime;
Aloha Dream;
Live Jazz;
Clinton Coronation;
River Trash;
Berryessa Monument;
Posting Activists;
Voter Registration;
Wood Delivery;
MRC Tours;
Jackson Closures;
Museum Camp;
Planning Agenda;
FPPC Investigation

Hare Creek Heats Up

The City of Fort Bragg held an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) scoping session Monday, September 19th at Town Hall on the topic of yet another…

Magenta Queen

I recently completed my new novel Magenta and brought the book out in handsome coil-bound photocopies, each copy signed and lavishly numbered, available through my web site or by bumping into me in Mendocino and arranging an exchange.

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