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Posts published in April 2021

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Pattern Change | 3 New Cases | Frost Fans | Turnout Fire | Plant Sale | Emerald City | Hotel Willits | Supes Notes | Train Toss | Ed Notes | Dog Hell | Precautionary Principle | Yesterday's Catch | Overheard | Surviving Hemingway | Pamplona | Greedy Humans | Eureka Productions | Neurotic Liberals | Stupid Answer | Weekly Comments | Death Hotel | Afghan Vet | Home Riot | Oath Keepers | Titanic 2020 | Slow Memory | Fixing Stupid | King George | Post-Capitalism Conference | Killing Whites | Mendo Watertowers | Found Object

County-Wide Election On Pot Expansion?

Last week, we talked about Supervisor John Haschak joining myself, former Sheriff Tom Allman, and current Sheriff Matt Kendall, plus many others in requesting the Board of Supervisors hold a countywide election if their proposed…

My Kind Of Town, Ukiah Is

Support for a traffic roundabout at Bush and Low Gap seems confined to those who work in government, which is sufficient cause for skepticism among the rest of us. City officials recently resurrected plans for…

Richard Nixon, Jews & Marijuana

What is about Jews and marijuana? That’s what Richard Nixon asked H. R. (Bob) Halderman 50-years ago, on May 26, 1971 to be precise. The White House tapes recorded Nixon saying, “There’s a funny thing,…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, April 19, 2021

Passing Disturbance | Turnout Fire | Redwood Wonder | Rooms Available | Chad Kirkendall | BLM FB | Burn Control | 1929 Thespians | Abreu Denied | Poppy Extravaganza | JDSF Rally | Immigrant Photo | Cannabis Sellout | First Fatality | Phase 3 | DA Hip | Floral View | Art Sale | Pebble People | Ed Notes | Police Reports | Yesterday's Catch | Nada Yada | Sinking Ship | Hollow Clowns | Elephant Encounter | Dipsea Finish | American Character | Foppoli Follies | George McLaurin | Tough Question | Propagandistic Documentary | Boxing Profession | Black Culture | Big Wave | Nurtured Forest | Rabid Bobcat | Risky Business

The Sheriff’s Challenges

Since Matt Kendall took office as Mendocino County Sheriff in January 2020, the unprecedented has become pretty standard, yet he usually brings an easygoing, confident humor to even the toughest shocks. But events over the…

Claud Cockburn’s ‘Double Personality’

In his autobiography, I, Claud…, Cockburn describes being recruited by the Daily Worker in late 1936: “It was about this time that Mr. Pollitt, Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, whom I had never met, was…

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