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Posts published in February 2021

Superspreader Bowl

A month and a day after the storming of the Capitol came the national rites of healing. These were enacted not in an atmosphere of…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Feb. 19, 2021

Shower Increase | 19 New Cases | Sore Arm | Clare Mill | Magical Buttercup | Tunnel Workers | Future Farmers | Yorkville BBQ | Masks Required | True Evil | Eggs & Hats | Sisyphus Hill | Sun Grazing | Cannabis Survey | Home Economics | Forest Reserve | County Nepotism | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | California Stimulus | Little Something | Unity Dodge | Big Blade | Faustian Bargain | Extreme Chess | Powerful Ghoul | Al Blozis | Atomic Shortcuts

‘They’re Lucky They Didn’t Get Hurt’

When longtime Marin County Sheriff Robert Doyle accepted my invitation for an interview, I assumed he merely wanted an opportunity to soften his image, spew…

Ukiah Defiant

I was hunting down some morning coffee at daughter Emily’s place in Santa Rosa and I opened a kitchen cupboard, pulled out a big white…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021

Light Rain | 7 New Cases | Councilwoman Meadlin | Lake Low | Tellie Jo | Feller Kuny | Hotel Takeout | Director Willeford | Manager Andersen | Pine Grove | Forest Improvement | Bunyan Days | Ed Notes | Rush Limbaugh | Eureka Productions | Redistricting Mendo | Sleepy Keegan | Yesterday's Catch | Hardy Creek | Oil Lobby | Biker | Turbotax Franchise | Icebird | National Derangements | Log Truck | Biden Love | Tyrannical Mask | Less Traveled | Middleweight Fight | Minimum Wage | Owl Droppings | Medicare Scammers | Nat King Cole | We Breathe | 2020 Jeep | Failed States | Mendocino Messenger

The Ten Mile Killer

The Roaring Twenties had just begun to roar, you couldn't buy a drink in Ukiah but you could in Point Arena, brothels catering to the…

County Notes (February 17, 2021)

Mendo’s Vaccination Cluster-Bleep At last Tuesday Board meeting, Supervisor Ted Williams asked if there was “general board support” for “publishing on a daily basis how…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021

Sunny Day | 11 Cases | MyTurn CA | Kuny Birthday | Alden Death | Tule Toymaking | Ukiah Players | Methy Stop | Early Marmon | Hipes Spied | Albion 1863 | Uncle DV | Vaccine Line | Snowprints | Ed Notes | Texas Freeze | Yesterday's Catch | Old Noyo | Saving Pacifica | No School | Grateful Natural | Jury Charade | Message Centers | Temporal Life | Dem Rot | American Gothic | Fortified Election | Dark Moment | Snowcropolis | Vax Responsible | Five Questions | Magnificent Seven | Human Natures

Off the Record (February 17, 2021)

AFTER AN HOUR of irrelevant, stumbling, beside-the-point, unfocused, and downright cringing discussion, the Supervisors voted 3-2 to continue Mrs. Liz Barney's public info contract, Gjerde…

Letters (February 17, 2021)

Several years ago I was informed by a realtor that around 30 percent of our housing inventory was second homes or vacation rentals. I often wonder where that number stands today...

Valley People (February 17, 2021)

BOONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL’S indefatigable Ag teacher, Beth Swehla, organized her  floral design class to carry out a timely Valentine’s Day sale of student work product…

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