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Posts published in May 2018

Humco Official: No Room In The Jail

A majority of Humboldt County’s Board of Supervisors supports a ballot initiative to limit early prison releases but capacity issues could interfere with the initiative’s goals.  The backlash against propositions 47 and 57 and AB…

Rugged Days Of Yore

“Life is cheap up here on the Canadian,” is a line from Lonesome Dove that has stuck with me. When something goes even moderately wrong at the ranch I sometimes say, “Life sure is rough…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Fire Fatality;
Anti-Hutchins;
Country Road;
State Propositions;
Humorless Book;
Starry Sky;
Mendo Slowdown;
Downtown Ukiah;
Ed Notes;
Restaurant Review;
Bridge Video;
Skyhawk Endorsement;
Opioid Litigation;
Chump Radio;
Ab Poacher;
Little Dog;
Larson Endorsement;
T-Shirt ID;
Yesterday's Catch;
Opioid Crisis;
Rent Control;
Glass Portraits;
Library App;
Rudy;
Museum Event;
Media Blitz;
Housing Crisis;
Ironic;
Female Torturer;
Remember When

The Musical Tastes of Spring

All traces of snow are at last gone from the picturesque nineteenth-century cemetery in Ithaca, New York. Down below in the nearby the Cascadilla Gorge the creek gathers momentum from late-arriving spring’s rain. Just beyond…

Commence Firing!

The sensational factionalism at the Ukiah Gun Club finally arrived in court last week, and some of the more shocking and lurid aspects of the case seemed almost to fly out the window as the…

Off the Record (May 9, 2018)

AN EXTORTIONATE threat from a young, homegrown lawyer to balkanize Fort Bragg to achieve ethnic electoral balance, inspired a nice bit of well-deserved satire by the much read Facebook page called MendocinoSportsPlus. Predictably, the reading…

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