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Posts published in February 2017

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

Monster Truck Mauls Pedestrian

Kent Donald Gladden, 57, of Ukiah, has been accused of running over a pedestrian, Cindy Long, December 9, 2017 at approximately 7:40pm, in the driveway to the Overnighter…

Boat Sunk, Dog Dead

When Olive was taken to the animal shelter in Ukiah thousands of people reached out to me. Every day I meet people who ask me…

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