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Posts published in February 2021

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 cup with big black letters that said: BITCH, PLEASE. I’M…

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 transient men of the booming logging industry were the social…

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 many vaccines had taken place by provider.” His colleagues all…

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 and Williams, capitulating to the cadre of hysterics and crackpots…

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 at Anderson Valley Market, where her class offered a professional-quality…

Vaccine Availability on the Coast

As of this writing, 176 million doses of the various COVID vaccines have been given worldwide.  Perhaps it is not surprising that the vast majority of these have been distributed in more affluent countries.  The…

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