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Posts published in “Day: November 21, 2018

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018

Finally Rain;
Fire Updates;
Air Quality;
Little Dog;
Warm Love;
Ed Notes;
Danny Boy;
Thankful Dead;
Fishers v Oil;
Bridge Closures;
False Idols;
Soccer Championship;
PG&E Decision;
He-Man;
Knucklehead Drivers;
Foodshed News;
Yesterday's Catch;
Raw Love;
Planning Agendas;
Not Democracy;
Finnish Ideas;
Crafts Fair;
Climate Deniers;
Short Week;
No Danger;
Museum Event;
Walmart Bennies;
Appraisal Proposal

County Notes (Nov. 21, 2018)

During last Tuesday's first quarter budget update the Board of Supervisors discussed several capital improvement projects. One of them was the estimated $25 million jail expansion project.

“Destroy This Document”

This starts innocuously enough with an email from Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) on November 9th announcing the agenda for the November 13th meeting of the hospital's Planning Committee. Stick with it because there will…

Off the Record (Nov. 21, 2018)

Sunday was the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown mass murders. Mendocino County — specifically Redwood Valley — was Jones's capital accumulation site where he milked a series of barebones care homes, staffed by free labor from his church, to get the money to move to San Francisco and bigger things.

Valley People (Nov. 21, 2018)

Boonville’s Cassidy Hollinger has been very sick and needs the support of her home community. Cassidy writes: “As many of you know - especially if you followed my social media meme journey - this past spring I entered Kings County Hospital for what I thought was a minor infection...and boy was I in for a treat.

Letters (Nov. 21, 2018)

When I was growing up, PG&E constantly advertised how, in the not-so-distant future, all electricity would be underground. I never thought about the danger; I just assumed they would do it to hide the ugly wires. However, as a firefighter for 25 years, I have seen how insane it is to have high-voltage wires strung from pole to pole along our county roads. I have responded to an untold number of vegetation fires caused by cars crashing into poles or winds causing branches and trees to fall on wires.

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