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Posts published in June 2016

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, June 9, 2016

Uncounted Ballots;
Voter Appreciation;
V Victory;
Madame Grifter;
Cavs Rebound;
Blaming Bernie;
Writing Profession;
Housing Grant;
Sweeting Update;
Police Report;
Yesterday's Catch;
Crude Awakening;
Money Mountain;
SNWMF 2016;
Woodworking Show

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 Association convention drew me into a megalopolis. I had to…

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 developed for that purpose and which bears his name. This…

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 New Orleans. I sniff the air and wonder which direction…

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 kill at least one billion birds per year. Some estimates…

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 now. The County will exchange a very bad privatized adult…

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, hyperactive biters destroying a house to fulfill me, and if…

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.

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