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Posts published in February 2021

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021

High Pressure | 9 New Cases | FB Vaccine Clinic | Raven | Check-in Calls | Ketch | Cops School | Shipwreck | Customer Waldron | Early George | Great Redwood Scam | Ed Notes | Hollow Men | Ships Dock | 1 For 8 | Yesterday's Catch | Kibesillah Cove | Citizen Trump | Horseshoe Smiths | Useful Idiots | Shallow Faith | Stuffy Beachwear | Bewildering Division | Pure Gibberish | Warring Tribes | 1912 Strike | Weekly Comments | Fascism Response | Cometary Shrapnel | Ministerial Laughter

Isolatoes: From Natty Bumppo to the Proud Boys

They were nearly all Isolatoes, not acknowledging the common continent of men, but each Isolato living on a separate continent of his own. Yet now, federated along one keel, what a set these Isolatoes were!…

Pfizer Second Dose Events

This week’s COVID-19 vaccine 2nd dose events have been scheduled. If you received your 1st dose of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine from Mendocino County at the Ukiah Fairgrounds on January 27th, 28th or 29th, please visit the link below…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Feb. 15, 2021

Scattered Showers | 22 New Cases | Trojan Bong | Mendocino Inspirations | Manchester Station | Signal Ridge | Old Gualala | Mike Pina | Jack Palladino | Wiener High | Ukiah Defiant | Coast Guard | Simpson's Lament | Elephant Crossing | Wackford Squeers | Yesterday's Catch | Longvale Oasis | Migrating Redwoods | Printer's Down | Mitchpocrisy | Freak Show | Recall Newsom | New Republicans | Statesman McPunk | Fakest Woke | Classical Podcast | Medieval Knievel | Net Neutrality | Saint Valentin | New Jacobins | Love Is

Music To Chill By

Here in Upstate New York nearly two feet of snow blanket the ground. Old Timers reminiscence over Zoom cocktails about the real winters of their youths. When temperatures plunged below zero in the wee hours…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021

Warm Front | 20 New Cases | Pet Tessa | Health Chat | Kingfisher | Senate Acquits | Loading Ship | Veggie Starts | Girl Fig Mask | Sinking | Talk & Pump | Loaded Ship | Navarro Ferry | Second Chance | Lost Creek | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Best Shot | Helmet Test | Freethinkers | Assassinated | Cancel Culture | Frazier House | Miss You | Heron | Capitol Rioters | Fearless Slugger | Congressional Pay | Author Reading | Marco Radio | Redemption Song

The War On Privacy

My colleague Glenn Greenwald hit the nail on the head this weekend when he wrote about “tattletale journalism,” in which media reporters for the largest companies spend their time attacking speech, instead of defending it.…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021

Partial Clearing | 22 New Cases | Vaccine Supply Problem | Spini Brothers | Yorkville BBQ | Grange Food | Chief's Report | O'Brien's House | Local Housing | Eel River | Retroactive Contracts | FB House | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Cupid Hustle | Conviction Stand | Max Baer | Complicated Grief | Swinging Bridge | Ponzi Journalism | Homeschooling | Woke Inquisition | Stopping Brady | Marco Radio | Public Flogging

A Trip Around the Lake

Living 45 years on the coast, but having business or family needs that take me into the Central Valley, I’ve driven Highway 20 along the north shore of Clear Lake more times than I can…

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