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Posts published in February 2017

Why The Lights Go Out Again & Again & Again

Early January. Big storm, lots of rain; the electricity goes off for four days. I'm not home. I'm traveling. I return a few days later and there it is: the long puddle of putrid water…

Hospitality & Ruffing

How do you top the story of the Fort Bragg City Council approving an ordinance that provides for cannabis manufacturing within the industrial zones of city limits. With four magic words that at once ignite…

Bird’s Eye View (Feb. 22, 2017)

On Friday’s Real Time episode on HBO, Bill Maher called for a new slogan for these wild times: “Make America Learn Again.” Pointing out the proliferation of fake news and rampant skepticism on our social…

Policing Mendocino County

In this interview, Deputy Orell Massey, Mendocino County’s first and only black deputy, looks back... Midnight Rambler Incident — I was on patrol one night and saw a car going about 80 miles an hour.…

The Sound Of Your Own Heels

There is a popular expression — among the sort of unimaginative types who continually recycle "witticisms" until any acuity they may once have had has long been worn away — about opinions and their relationship…

Letters (Feb. 22, 2017)

Italian author Umberto Eco was a man who understood the influences and results of fascism. He wrote that fascism was a not a concrete political system, but a collection of behaviors that, taken together, forged something incomprehensible.

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017

Road Updates;
Court Reports;
Sport Degradation;
Ukiah Visit;
253 Rehab;
Raskin Reading;
Whitman Novel;
Little Dog;
Legal Costs;
Care-a-Van;
Ukiah Dispensaries;
Police Reports;
Yesterday's Catch;
Hambone California;
Reckoning;
Resistance Literature;
Wrong Food;
Enemy Journalists;
Velveeta Valentine;
Schadenfreude Brigade;
Flood Planning;
Library Events;
Oroville Lessons;
Planning Commission;
Papa Fengshui;
Cannabis Tax

Monster Truck Mauls Pedestrian

Kent Donald Gladden, 57, of Ukiah, has been accused of running over a pedestrian, Cindy Long, December 9, 2017 at approximately 7:40pm, in the driveway to the Overnighter Trailer Park at 700 E. Gobbi Street in Ukiah. Testimony…

Boat Sunk, Dog Dead

When Olive was taken to the animal shelter in Ukiah thousands of people reached out to me. Every day I meet people who ask me about the dog. Folks that I do not really think…

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