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Posts published in December 2015

Ballsy Intellectuals Run Amuck

Nothing – not drones, bombs, apps, or awards – stops the white male North American intellectual in his quest to nail the nature of the times in which we live. Super-intellectual soars again and again,…

The Stony Lonesome: Getting Old

Most of my friends in Fort Bragg are considerably younger than me. This is not necessarily by design, except insofar as my seriously arrested development leads me to seek out others of around my own…

Thanksgiving

Henry Abbot is not in the habit of picking up hitchhikers, though until eight years ago he very much enjoyed giving rides to strangers and dropping them at the best hitchhiking spots in Fort Orford.…

Valley People (Dec 2, 2015)

SHORTY ADAMS is feelin' it! The legendary school bus driver's Boonville home is the first in the Valley to turn on Christmas lights, and what a nice sight Shorty's house is, an array of bright…

Bird’s Eye View (Dec 2, 2015)

Like most self-respecting families all across the country, most of you were no doubt enjoying a delicious turkey for dinner last Thursday, but it would appear that Mr. and Mrs. Devil and the Devil Child had something else to eat. Bastards!

Mendocino County Today(s): Dec 1 & 2, 2015

Bridge Closures;
Deceased Diver;
Bistro Contest;
Ukiah Water;
Ortweins;
Storytelling;
PD Headline;
Project Sanctuary;
Oklahoma Lane;
Fun-iture;
Painting Class;
Cold Warrior;
Dorothea;
Local Arts;
Piano Concert;
Elk;
Website Switcharoo;
Remembering Raquel;
Systems Failing;
Rocky Creed;
Marijuana Talk;
Redwood Classic;
Unforgiving Sea;
Deadheading;
Healing Music;
Catch of the Days;
Library Events;
Feliz Navidad;
KZYX;
Survivor;
Tiny Dancer

Reindeer Dust For Christmas

It has been a year now since Proposition 47 was voted into law. And the promises made by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Safer Neighborhoods and Schools-coalition to get it passed have all come…

Fort Bragg City Council Meeting

The initiative to ban social service organizations, retroactive to January 1, 2015, in Fort Bragg's Central Business District will be entitled Measure U on the June, 2016 ballot. The Fort Bragg City Council has already…

Letters (Dec 2, 2015)

We’ve had almost 2-1/2 years of privatized adult mental health services and have seen the demise of Medical Outpatient where a person had timely access to their psychiatrist or nurse, and could receive local Pre-Crisis and Crisis help from professionals who knew them. We’ve seen the elimination of most of the licensed clinicians who were patient support staff in County’s three Medical Outpatient offices. The clerical staff is gone. Privatization has brought in multiple unlicensed people working in locations with names and addresses that keep changing.

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