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Posts published in January 2021

2021 Has To Be Better

A year ago this week, I sat in a left corner seat in a school auditorium, watching as presidential candidate Andrew Yang yukked it up with teens at Concord High in New Hampshire. Yang was…

The Start of Something New?

In a recent article in The Atlantic, staff writer, George Packer, published an essay titled “A Political Obituary for Donald Trump.” The subtitle: “The effects of his reign will linger. But democracy survived.” In the…

Mendocino County Today: January 7, 2021

Brief Interlude | 37 New Cases | AV Vaccinations | Freezer Fiasco | Mendo Surging | Navarro Breaches | Educator Drowned | Albion Mill | Trussed Invader | Shelter Cove | Whetstone Murder | Whale Rock | Systemic Changes | Seen Trudy? | Ed Notes | Statehouses Swarmed | PA Testing | Yesterday's Catch | Biden Baggage | Incompetent Leadership | Liquidation Sale | Sensible Measures | Held Up | Boats | Bales Campaigns | Yesterday's Quotes | Found Object

The Pandemic Continues

From Fort Bragg: “The [pandemic] has taken a second start at this place as it has in similar other sections and some forty-five or fifty cases are reported. The Board of Health held a session…

What’s Wrong with KZYZ? (Everything)

(I asked Marco McClean why KZYX was always asking for money. MM being the county's premier radio guy with a thorough understanding of how radio works or doesn't work, who better to explain the KZYX…

Mendocino County Today: January 6, 2021

Low Pressure | 51 New Cases | Vaccine Bungle | Storm Approach | 128 Reopened | Seastack Mist | Propane Pricing | Caspar Bay | Take-out Meals | Georgia Results | Potter Valley | Postal Delays | Supes Notes | B Dazzle | Wheat Harvest | Slander Campaign | Log Pond | Ukiah Parking | Railway Pier | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Everything Gray | Whistleblower Treatment | Prima Tribute | Welsh Wheat | Favorite Film | Coastal Mill | Yuki Territory | Old Cleone | Homeless Crime | Bizarro Dystopia | Elbert Howard | Suffragette Skirt | Propaganda Professor | The News

Supes Agenda Highlights

[Board of Supervisors Agenda, January 5, 2021] Ten More Deputies Item 5j: Discussion and Possible Action Regarding the Operation, Staffing, and Fiscal Plan for Additional Ten (10) Deputies to the Sheriff's Operations to Address Organized…

Off the Record (January 6, 2021)

NOTE: Changes in our print schedule mean the mail dispatch from Boonville is now on Thursdays, not Wednesdays. Subscribers, stores, and newsstands beyond the Anderson Valley will get their paper-papers a day later than previously.…

Tale of Two American Deaths

When a close girlfriend was recently in the market for an “assisted living” facility for her husband of 40 years, I volunteered to check out a few places for her. Her husband, who I’ll call…

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