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Posts published in August 2018

Letters (Aug. 29, 2018)

I stayed in a village of converted shipping containers for employees on the American Embassy compound in Afghanistan. Each container was a one-room bed/living room with a TV, a desk and an attached bathroom. Each had a window. Concrete walkways wound around them. While they all looked pretty much the same on the outside, some of the insides were elaborately decorated. Other containers served as offices. Surely a precedent for quick, cheap housing.

Pot Laws 2018

A lot has changed pot-wise since my high school days when we sneaked off down trails deep into the woods, clutching our tiny matchboxes filled…

Valley People (Aug. 29, 2018)

THE ONLY PROPERTY for sale in all of the Anderson Valley for under half a mil or so is the acre and a quarter for the miraculous price of $180,000 just down the road from the Navarro Store.

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018

Pop-up Pot;
Cleanup Condemnation;
Ranch Fire;
BAER Meeting;
FB Grassfire;
Center Shooting;
Peace Crime;
B Meeting;
Barn Sale;
Find Khadijah;
Pot Regs;
Little Dog;
Hospital Mysteries;
Urbane Cowboy;
Cannabis Hour;
MCDH Meetings;
Yesterday's Catch;
Polluter Fee;
Climate Warning;
Exhausting;
Illegal Clearing;
Powell Turnaround;
Pot Anarchy;
Peace Lovers;
60s Cowgirl;
Ibsen Reading;
Devil Lovers;
Symphony Schedule;
Bail Reform;
50s Hipsters;
SMART Economics;
YouTube Purge

Disaster Preparedness

During my early days in the Air Force one of my duties was Base Mobility Plans officer. It was a dull job that nobody would…

Hello Severity, Good-Bye Leniency

Mendo’s new Public Defender Jeffery Aaron has yet to make his debut at the courthouse in Ukiah, but the place has been running smoothly without him, and the District Attorney told us that he, David Eyster, had already met Mr. Aaron and thoroughly approved of the choice. 

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018

Ranch Fire;
Cache Fire;
Air Tankers;
Cannabis Crisis;
Code Enforcement;
Domestic Assaults;
Superintendent Warych;
Yorkville Extravaganza;
Friday Football;
Navarro Bargain;
Sports Talk;
Reith Novel;
Logging Exemptions;
Baseball Season;
Winery Creep;
Smelt Fishing;
Bad Law;
Yesterday's Catch;
Tough John;
Little Dog;
LA Irony;
Going Down;
NPR Chloroform;
Huber Investigations;
Planning Cancelled;
Chicano March;
Grassroots Leadership;
News Belt;
Hogwarts Dinner;
Amusement Towns;
Harbor Festival;
Capella Concert;
Paint Festival;
Bus Service

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Aug. 27, 2018

Cache Fire;
Complex Updates;
Little Dog;
Flea Market;
Baseball Season;
Ed Notes;
Disaster Preparedness;
Campesino;
Home Invasion;
Yesterday's Catch;
Docile People;
Pink Houses;
Superdelegate Reform;
Irresponsible Logging;
Elites Grifting;
Dress Code;
Craig Removed;
John McCain

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018

Ranch Fire;
Pillsbury Return;
PD Aaron;
Pets;
Ed Notes;
Little Dog;
Yesterday's Catch;
Dem Relief;
Tough Times;
Pot Crusader;
High Horse;
Fire Meditation;
Pancake Breakfast;
Cognitive Impatience;
Liberal Globalization;
Dahlia Garden;
Limp Fillers;
Bison Genocide;
Acid Reflux;
Suing Man;
Marco Radio;
Library Workshops

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