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Posts published in “Day: August 15, 2018

Exploiting Styron’s Ghost

Eli Lilly got FDA approval to market Prozac in December 1987. The company had a brilliant strategy for making it a blockbuster: promote not the drug so much as the disorder — "Clinical Depression," a supposedly widespread "mental illness" that, by the way, Lilly's new "Selective Serotonin-Reuptake Inhibitor" could supposedly treat.

Letters (Aug. 15, 2018)

Our local fires have raised many questions, including who ultimately pays for the damages caused and how are those damages measured. So far the debates I’ve read have pinpointed the potential payers or losers as PG&E ratepayers, taxpayers, utility shareholders, or the damaged property owners, if they are not fully insured. An important point in the equation is that when facilities owned by a utility (such as PG&E) are implicated in causing the damage, the utility is liable whether or not any fault on its part is involved.

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018

Daniel Woolley;
Area Closure;
Local Assistance;
Complex Update;
Matthew Burchett;
Chain Fires;
Blake Bust;
Burnt County;
Doctor Arrest;
Hipps Replaced;
Resisting Districting;
Special Meeting;
Little Dog;
Trumpeter Search;
Spineless;
Director Schultz;
Yesterday's Catch;
Night Lights;
Poleeko Fish;
Mental Shackles;
Napafication;
All Caps;
Socialism Preferred;
Broadband Alliance

Shall The Circle Be Unbroken!

John Arteaga, a regular columnist for the Ukiah Daily Journal, recently mentioned the expensive lawsuit filed by the Ukiah Valley Sanitation District against the City…

What To Do With Mr. Vega

Rodolfo Vega-Carrillo, 30, has been diagnosed with schizophrenia since childhood, but he’s got other health problems too, life-threatening ones, and needs dialysis soon or he…

Fire & Burritos

I know what you’re all thinking: How’s ol’ Flynn doing? Oh, I know you’ve all got your own fish to fry, particularly in this parlous,…

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