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Posts published in August 2018

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018

Office Turnover;
Complex Update;
Council Resists;
Sewage Mess;
Little Dog;
Trashed Lake;
November Candidates;
Legalization;
B Meeting;
KraZYX;
Yesterday's Catch;
Healthcare Funding;
Final Revolution;
Trained Rat;
Morally Bankrupt;
Tax Exempt;
Farmer Marketing;
Recording;
Hot Seawater;
Stop Fascists;
NCO Picnic;
County Vacancies;
Air Quality

(Barely) Makin’ It In Mendo

The airwaves these days are thick with concerned talk about the world we are leaving to our children and grandchildren. Occasionally statistics are even thrown in – usually compiled by old folks like we are,…

Mendo News 100 Years Ago

One hundred years ago the Boston Red Sox scored only nine runs in a six game World Series, and won, four games to two over the even more hitless Chicago Cubs. Babe Ruth started and…

Valley People (Aug. 15, 2018)

THE ANDERSON VALLEY is saddened by the death of June Lemons, matriarch of the well-known Valley family and owners of the Lemons Market complex. A quiet, modest, hard-working person who, with her late husband, Elmer,…

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 of Ukiah. The lawsuit has been in the works for…

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