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Posts published in December 2020

Pot Farm Petite

I thought it was a dream. A war dream specifically, filled with fiery convoys of armored vehicles, militant men screaming “Don’t move!” and “Arms up where we can see ‘em!”, the scatter and roar of…

Why Democrats Keep Losing

Why, Democrats have been asking, do so many poor white people vote for a Republican Party that doesn’t care about or do anything for them? The most common reply is: Democrats are snobby coastal elites…

Mendocino County Today: December 19, 2020

Driz Dry | 25 Cases | Covid Ate Homework | Rest Room | Adrift Aghast | Bunyan Load | Ed Notes | Hummingbird | Streetscape Update | Czech Lodge | Initial Vaccines | The Slab | Wireless Alert | Fish Fish | Kimbler Said | Horsetitution | Yesterday's Catch | Translating Pete | Xmas Mail | Regressive Taxes | Eviction Prevention | Nice Dog | Big Pharma | Trump's Response | Redwood Conservation | Nativity 2020 | Gyre Widens | Buna Christmas | Marco Radio | Say It

How the Shipwreck of an Opium Clipper Changed California

The Point Cabrillo Lighthouse has guarded lumber schooners and trading ships on the Mendocino coast for the past century. The restored head lightkeeper's home opened as a bed-and-breakfast inn last fall. At 9:30 p.m. on…

Songs of the Biden Heart

Much has been made of the playlists of the erstwhile presidential contenders. Back in 2016 Trump’s obsession with winning was given voice by Queen’s “We are the Champions,” who have, as the lyrics put it,…

First Vaccines Administered

Mendocino County Public Health Works With Adventist Health to Administer First Round of COVID-19 Vaccines Post Date: 12/18/2020 1:00 PM Mendocino County Public Health (MCPH) officially secured 975 complete doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine yesterday morning,…

Mendocino County Today: December 18, 2020

Dry Ahead | 26 Cases | John Missing | FB 1857 | Disaster Prep | Near Elk | Wrecks/Vaccines | Coyote Valley | 1913 News | Old Noyo | Ed Notes | Beyond Disappointing | Criminal Disregard | Orr Springs | Intrepid Reporter | Yesterday's Catch | Rent Strike | PA Testing | SF Muni | Solar Installer | Solstice Gathering | Beach Steps | Suspected Arsonist | Knee Shot | Facebook Doomsday | 1955 Flood | Wrong Socialism | Used Words | Irish Fishermen | 60s Values | Fools Gold | Exceedingly Angry | Gold-en Cola | Disaster Capitalism | India 1900 | Prescient le Carré | Correspondent Gellhorn

Not Doing Your Job

As we near the end of this woefully dismal year, it’s informative to look at the departure of two Departmental heads who decided to call it quits, while leaving in their wakes troubled and dysfunctional…

I’m Seeing 20/20 in 2020

Just like you and everyone we know, I’ve been spending the past few decades not paying much attention to my ever-worsening eyesight. This is because it takes a few decades for it to get really…

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