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Posts published in January 2017

We Forget

Bad regimes are in the business of making us forget. More than anything they want to cancel our feeling for the impossible that twists some of us into impractical romantics. Teenagers tend to pass through…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017

Flooding Expected;
Machete Sentence;
Mayor Meetings;
Little Dog;
Supe Vacancy;
Snow-cat Rescue;
Dodger Game;
Yesterday's Catch;
President Jawbone;
Baby 2017;
Cannabis Bank;
Italian View;
Dog Training;
Interior Order;
Bellicose Nations;
Library Events

Noyo Bay Tragedy

The first I knew of it, on the last day of the year, about 11pm, in a gently falling rain, a Coast Guard HH 65 rescue helicopter pounded down the Noyo River headed for the…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Jan 4, 2017

Between Storms;
Woodhouse Resigns;
Attempted Murder;
DA Award;
Pleasing Dad;
Skaggs Springs;
Little Dog;
Bypass Effects;
Undercover Transient;
Nelson Retires;
Standing Rock;
Yesterday's Catch;
Democratic Stables;
Laminated Timber;
Criminal Neighbor;
Cornball Empire;
Three Poets;
Broadband Meeting;
Hyperreality;
Deadbeat Treat;
Dam Release

Year-End Awards, 2016

MOST ENCOURAGING ELECTION: Fort Bragg City Council, Mayor Lindy Peters. LEAST ENCOURAGING: Point Arena where city councils new and old think a part-time city manager at $50,000 a year is necessary to run a town…

The Last Campbell

Just south of Healdsburg on the east side of Highway 101 was the Campbell Ranch. Almost every resident of Healdsburg and many on the North Coast knew the ranch with the friendly two-story house sitting…

They Said I’d Never Make A Fortune

So many cubes of braised tofu, countless Hunan broccoli specials; turned out they could legitimately be written off and called research. Frequenting of Sino-American eateries, from an IRS perspective, had been strictly recreational — until…

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