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Posts published in “Day: June 8, 2016

Burning Man, Chicago & 17,000 Book Lovers

Freely admitting I’m a country bumpkin that doesn’t get to the big city very often a recent trip to Chicago to attend the American Booksellers…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Election Results;
Love Bolts;
Williams Leaving;
Baseball Awards;
PA Protest;
Everything's On;
Wax Promoted;
Albion Phones;
Philo Praises;
Boss Correction;
Control Burn;
Mendo Board;
Yesterday's Catch;
Election Holiday;
Missing Alex;
Tunnels Plan;
KZYX Trouble;
Colonel's Bucket;
Broadband Meetings;
Remembering Ali;
Remembering Debs;
Groundwater Act;
Museum Closure;
Ukiah Concert

Items You Might Have Missed

At the age of 96, Dr. Henry J. Heimlich had occasion to save a woman who was choking by using the famous maneuver he had…

Requiem For A Pasha

The year is 1990. I'm standing on the Amtrak station platform in Lafayette, Louisiana. We'll be here for ten minutes and then roll on to…

Birdkillers

You want your terrorist scares. The ISIS of the natural world resides in your backyard or, at most, the field beyond. We're talking cats. Cats…

536 Donuts Later…

The June 30 deadline for the County’s conversion from Ortner Management Group (OMG) to Redwood Quality Management Company (RQMC) is just a few weeks away…

Adventures In Babysitting

I never had any children, for much the same reason that I never kept rabid weasels: I do not require the presence of small, toxic,…

Memorial Day Realities

My father worked the “industrial” side of what Eisenhower famously called the military-industrial complex. He ran a division of a major automobile corporation that made weaponry, or parts thereof, for the military. After he died, we found a letter addressed to him from a senior general he worked with.

Cool, Clear Water (Someday)

On Tuesday, May 24, 2016, Boonville grape grower Deborah Kahn, civil engineer David Coleman, Boonville Hotel co-owner Roger Scommegna, Boonville resident Xenia King, Community Services…

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