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…
Posts published in February 2021
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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.…
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
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…
Damp Weather | 28 Cases | Health Team | Caspar 1866 | Closed Session | Albion Bridge | Philo Hum | Cliff House | 10,000 Honeybees | Florence House | Veggie Starts | Public Disagreement | AOC Search | Landline Backup | Ed Notes | No WiFi | First Shots | Yesterday's Catch | March Merch | Soft Poets | Morning Swim | Brutal Business | Clean Electricity | Tree Goat | Wildlife Checkpoints | Acceptable Opinion | Brakeman Swung | RBG Supreme | Human Dignity | Ed Pearl | Biker Break | Remember Art | Opium Den | RFK Jr | Acorns
John Fleming Wheeler served the town of Mendocino as dentist for less than a year and a half in 1878-1879. His name lives on because of his central role in the most notorious crime in…