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Posts published in June 2017

Looking Back At Wanda

Professor Don Foster's 1999 book "Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous" solves what the editor of "The Letters of Wanda Tinasky" grandly called "The Literary Mystery of the Decade" (the 1990s). It's also an…

Code Compliance

A brief history of Building and Planning Codes in Mendocino County, as presented to the Coastal Mendocino Association of Realtors on May 26, 2017

Paris to Boppard

The room — Our trip, what I’m calling our European Adventure, began on the 30th of May with our flight to Paris. This segment of the trip is from Paris to Boppard. That morning we…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Linn Bottorf;
Pension Resignation;
Little Dog;
Weed Workshop;
Navarro-by-the-Sea Day;
Tax Benefits;
First Five;
Growing Legal;
Why One;
Expected Revenues;
PD Awards;
Socialism;
Comptche BBQ;
FGM;
Yesterday's Catch;
Ugly Stories;
Novel Reading;
Fascinating Man;
Man Games;
Wildlife Considerations;
Private Gardens;
Art Quilts;
Church;
Trump Regime;
Muting Satirists;
Rex Sane

Mendo Jumps Into Bed With The Pot Industry

Mendo’s Final Budget for 2017-2018 (July 2017-June 2018) assumes they’ll get something like $1.7 million in pot taxes and permit fees. According to the anonymous budget notes, “The new discretionary source [of revenue] is the…

Talkin’ Smack On Facebook

Stephen Howard was held to answer on a felony charge of criminal threats last week. The criminal threats charge was Count One — that one held up (like a house of cards). Count Two, stalking,…

Off the Record (June 7, 2017)

WILLITS WEEKLY REPORTER Mike A’Dair picked up an interesting tidbit from the May 16 Board of Supervisors meeting which helps to explain Mendo’s housing shortage, particularly rentals. A’DAIR reported that the Supervisors discussed a proposed…

Valley People (June 7, 2017)

JUDY WAGGONER-ISBELL'S MEMORIAL GATHERING Lisa Kuny writes: On May 26th my beautiful, caring, funny, crazy, giving, mother passed away. She left us here to be with her son Bobby Dean, her mother Catherine, father Ern,…

Bird’s Eye View (June 7, 2017)

Following the remarkably short-sighted and extremely serious wrong decision made by The President* last week regarding climate control, let’s start with “This Trump Thing,” or as it had been known for nearly 250 years up…

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