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Posts published in March 2014

Mendocino County Today: Friday, March 28, 2014

Chaney Adrift;
Senator, Shrimp Boy in Hot Water;
Cancer Treatments;
Jimmy Carter on Obamacare;
God on Wind Machines;
Pot Doc Disciplined;
Fire Prevention Fee;
Sunshine Week;
Salmon Migrate by Truck

That Other Drought

The recent drought in Northern California made me think of the last one back in the mid-seventies when I was living about six miles up…

Early Mendocino County

As opposed to Robert Frost's two roads diverging in a wood, it is often the convergence of two paths that proves just as unexpected and…

Farm To Farm

Country inhabitants of the Ohio river valley have endured the most arduous winter in memory, at least for people 77 years and younger. While the…

The Grapes of Wrath Turns 75

John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (Viking Press, 1939, 619 pp.) turns 75 this year, and for many decades it has been regulated to juvenilia,…

Bach Was Never This Buff, Never This Bad

Since medieval Germans attached pedals to their organs way back in the 14th Century, the instrument has been as much a gymnastic apparatus as a…

Off The Map

Marcia and I are on the two-movies-a-month plan from Netflix, and many of the movies we watch are foreign films and documentaries.

Blocked!

Since I am, at the very least, a semi-regular Contributor to the AVA, and haven’t contributed anything for awhile, I figured it was time to…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, March 27, 2014

Deputy Mourned;
Memorial Pillaged;
Chaney's Release;
Nuts for Parrots;
Flocking to Point Arena;
Agricultural Nuisance;
WSJ Touts AV Appellation;
UN Reviews Kent State;
The Second Coming;
Trucking 30 Million Smolts

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