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Posts published in “Day: February 22, 2017

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017

Wet Week;
Peachland Washout;
Outlaw Hills;
Orr Springs Road Closed;
Highway Re-openings;
Marijuana Budgeting;
Yesterday's Catch;
Low Cunning;
Conservative Bible;
The Quarrel;
ukiaHaiku Festival;
Gardening Classes;
Mendocino Land Trust;
Little Dog;
Shocking Poverty;
Sports;
Steelhead Study

Erudition

In the tertulias of times past, there was always a scholar who knew everything. He remembered names, faces, dates, and data with absolute precision thanks to his privileged memory which was nourished by voluminous, diverse, and at times, useless reading. Any argument would ultimately appeal to him to act as the Court of Appeals.

Why The Lights Go Out Again & Again & Again

Early January. Big storm, lots of rain; the electricity goes off for four days. I'm not home. I'm traveling. I return a few days later…

Hospitality & Ruffing

How do you top the story of the Fort Bragg City Council approving an ordinance that provides for cannabis manufacturing within the industrial zones of…

Bird’s Eye View (Feb. 22, 2017)

On Friday’s Real Time episode on HBO, Bill Maher called for a new slogan for these wild times: “Make America Learn Again.” Pointing out the…

Policing Mendocino County

In this interview, Deputy Orell Massey, Mendocino County’s first and only black deputy, looks back... Midnight Rambler Incident — I was on patrol one night…

The Sound Of Your Own Heels

There is a popular expression — among the sort of unimaginative types who continually recycle "witticisms" until any acuity they may once have had has…

Letters (Feb. 22, 2017)

Italian author Umberto Eco was a man who understood the influences and results of fascism. He wrote that fascism was a not a concrete political system, but a collection of behaviors that, taken together, forged something incomprehensible.

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017

Road Updates;
Court Reports;
Sport Degradation;
Ukiah Visit;
253 Rehab;
Raskin Reading;
Whitman Novel;
Little Dog;
Legal Costs;
Care-a-Van;
Ukiah Dispensaries;
Police Reports;
Yesterday's Catch;
Hambone California;
Reckoning;
Resistance Literature;
Wrong Food;
Enemy Journalists;
Velveeta Valentine;
Schadenfreude Brigade;
Flood Planning;
Library Events;
Oroville Lessons;
Planning Commission;
Papa Fengshui;
Cannabis Tax

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