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Posts published in April 2016

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Apr 23, 2016

Almost Closed;
Homicide Investigation;
Homeless Chat;
Dog Adoptions;
Warrant Wednesday;
Embezzler Guilty;
Yes on W;
KZYX Challenge;
Bypass Date;
Yesterday's Catch;
Second Disaster;
New Book;
Better Unfavorables;
Tragedy;
Descriptive;
April 1975;
Sanders Movement;
Hot Drought;
Insider Trading;
Plant Sale;
Water Rates

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Apr 22, 2016

V Benefit;
Ukiah Bathrooms;
Courthouse Costs;
Definitely Drunk;
Shelter Websites;
Midnight Puncher;
Fed Felony;
Embezzlement Case;
Native Artist;
Yesterday's Catch;
Harridan;
AI;
Chinese Investors;
Public Stoning;
Guillits;
Hillary Cult;
Weather Modification;
Prince;
ExtortionCare;
Moral Challenge;
LSD 1943;
Jewish Donors;
Continuing Education;
Nye Ranch;
Global Capitalism

Nuclear Giants

Listening to the Giants bombard the Dodgers last week, I decided to pay a couple bills. This year, so far, for the first time since I was a kid listening to Lon Simmons and Russ Hodges doing the radio broadcasts, the boys are winning games with strong hitting rather than great pitching. Mays, McCovey, Cepeda, and Alou were a scary battery for any pitcher to face in the 1960s, and today we’ve got Panik, Posey, Pence, Belt, Duffy and Crawford smacking the ball around the park, not to mention our ace Madison Bumgarner taking the loathsome Clayton Kershaw deep in their first meeting of the year.

Strange Bedfellows

Charles Dudley Warner, the nineteenth-century American writer and Mark Twain’s pal, coined two memorable quips: “Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it; and “Politics makes strange bedfellows.” Indeed, campaigns, causes, elections…

Caspar UkeFest

[Apr 30] The Fifth Annual Caspar UkeFest, celebrating the ukulele as a friendly and playful instrument, will wrap up a full day of workshops and jam sessions with an evening concert on Saturday, April 30…

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