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Posts published in November 2018

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Nov. 16, 2018

Brian Mendoza;
Gofund Cassidy;
Camp Fire;
PG&E Priorities;
Fire Weather;
Local Food;
Creepy Joe;
Edu Race;
Supe Seminar;
Runoff Issues;
Drowning;
Pissed Off;
Yesterday's Catch;
Real Grievances;
LakeCo Visioneers;
Seriously Wrong;
Class Apartheid;
Civics;
Destry Rides;
Broadband Meeting;
Sex Pistols;
Torching Malibu;
Despair;
Flammable Terrain;
1959 Fire;
Jerry Rubin

Holiday Open Studio

[Dec 15] Looking for something to do this Saturday? Or maybe a bit of local Christmas shopping? Come take a look at Chris' ceramics, mugs,…

Christmas Singalong

[Dec 15] This Saturday, our 23rd annual Christmas Singalong with Lynn Archambault at 8:30 (dinner ends a bit early). Song books and hot mulled wine…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018

Camp Fire;
Ed Notes;
Little Dog;
Conspiracy Theorists;
Limbless;
St. Anthony's;
Yesterday's Catch;
Endangered Bees;
Fishcap;
Underground Lines;
Awareness;
Educated People;
Heading Out;
Quizless;
SF;
Surviving Wildfires;
Guatemalan Treasures;
First Day;
Big Bossman;
So-So Burger;
Humco Fines;
Sparking Powerlines;
Climate Denial;
Ride Offer;
Shrinking;
Buffalo Bill;
County Vacancies;
Pagan Commune;
Student Health;
World Ended;
Community Thanksgiving;
Improv Comedy;
Unraveling;
Herbal Energetics;
Cannabis Tax

Bach’s Day & Night

Time is not just relative. It’s political, too. We often measure our lives by presidential terms: the Carter years; Clinton time; Bush I; Bush II?…

The Summer of No Return

The forecast for August 8th was ominous. The temperature in Portland was predicted to breach 100 hundred degrees for the second time in a couple…

Post-Election High

I turned on my TV at about nine-thirty Tuesday night. I wanted to see what the paid liars were saying about the fiasco of an…

Letters (Nov. 14, 2018)

I’m an old man with Medicare Part D drug insurance. I shop at a local chain food market pharmacy. One of my prescriptions results in an $80.03 co-pay. They sell that drug for $225.69 cash. I found another chain store that sells it for $21.69 cash. I later found a website that allows me to print coupons so that the pharmacy I’ve been shopping at will sell it for $15.72 cash. Unbelievable is the only printable word that comes to mind.

A Slice of Life from 1911

Here on the Macdonald ranch mid-autumn is a time to pick apples. In my youth, keeper varieties were stored in rectangular wooden bins on the…

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