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Posts published in September 2018

The Great Comptche Fire of 1931

Somewhere on a shadowy shelf, amid the dusty books and pamphlets here at the ranch, rests a newspaper from eighty-seven years ago. On those faded pages, no photos to spark the imagination, just words to…

We Are The People Of The Fire

Wildfires are old news. They’ve been old news for as long as humans have told stories about wildfires and tried to tame them, along with almost everything else that was wild. As soon as there…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Sep. 12, 2018

FB Week;
Sunset;
Soggy Hurricane;
Complex Update;
Outback Football;
PV Diversion;
Michael Slaughter;
Albion Bridge;
Little Dog;
Norm Radio;
Watercolor;
Neighborly Shootout;
Yesterday's Catch;
Commie Puns;
Roadside Trash;
Scooter Danger;
Allende;
Party Betrayal;
Test Alert;
Foundation Celebration;
Offical;
Hospital Auxiliary;
Class Calculator;
Moderates;
Streetfighter Sy

Who Needs Supervisors?

Several “retroactive” Consent Calendar Items are on next Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors agenda. The Board of Supervisors (lead Supervisor John McCowen) have complained several times about retroactive contract add-ons — after all they basically send…

Home Invasion Season Opens Early, Or…

Rural sharpies could easily lure young city dudes to Mendoland using a cache of last year’s unsold marijuana as bait, pull out a gun at the right moment (say, when the buyer complains about the freshness of the product), get the drop on the city boys, take their money then sic the police on the suckas by calling 911 and yelling, “We were just robbed by home invaders.”

Off the Record (Sep. 12, 2018)

WHY ARE THESE WOMEN LAUGHING? 

(Because they make a lot of money providing invisible and/or failed services and never have to account for how many people "served" and how much money is spent "serving" them?)

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