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Posts published in April 2017

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, April 13, 2017

Upskirt Deliberations;
Leonard Pinola;
Counselor Banished;
Little Dog;
Love Hurts;
Sutro Wine;
BookingMobile;
Fierce Ancestors;
Braxton's Coffeshop;
Quiz Night;
Fatal Collision;
Yesterday's Catch;
Disappointing Loot;
Pacification;
Friendly Skies;
Foster Kittens;
Wolf Dogs;
Pot Swap;
Improv Workshops;
Usal Cleanup;
Salmon Season;
Om-diddy-do

Mendo Glyphosate Roundup

Top Glyphosate (Roundup) Users, Mendocino County, 2016 * * * By Permittee: Beckstoffer Vineyards-Mendo [winegrape] 442 gallons Mendocino Redwood Company [timber] 373 gallons Chevalier Vineyard Mgt Inc [winegrape, pear] 269 gallons Roederer (Anderson Vineyards Inc) [winegrape] 267 gallons Ardzrooni…

India Flexes Its Muscle: Part II

Jaipur, India — I have watched a whole family of monkeys perched on ancient stonewalls, and I have followed elephants as they’ve galumphed down the avenues of monstrous cities—undaunted by polluting buses, trucks and scooters.…

LAFCO Laffs At Anderson Valley

Phillip Thomas, Board member of Anderson Valley Ambulance Service, made the following remarks at the Monday, April 3, meeting of the Local Area Formation Commission (LAFCO) at the Board of Supervisors chambers in Ukiah...

Death Is Nothing to Us

Lewis Lapham and historian Stephen Greenblatt discuss the Dawn of Thought and the Italian Renaissance. [A short podcast.]

Scandal Of The Week

(Ed Note: This kind of thing happens with enough regularity in public sector Mendocino County, and is just as often kept top secret, that the only way to make the public aware of the more…

Monsanto Grangers

I drove up Highway One Monday afternoon to the old Fort Bragg Grange building in Inglenook to meet the local resistance. The Grangers, officially The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, were…

Prozac & Medical Marijuana

Everybody who knows the history of the medical marijuana movement knows that Dennis Peron started the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club in response to the AIDS epidemic, circa 1990. Less well known is that the Prozac epidemic…

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