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Posts published in February 2021

The Girl, The Fury & The Fallout

This has been a year of debate about social justice. From Black Lives Matter marches to Donald Trump rallies, hundreds of thousands have gathered to express their views. It’s been a national story. But when…

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 penitential sacrifice and prayer, but through elaborate choreographies of unbridled…

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 some PC platitudes, and question the ratios I had derived…

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…

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