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Posts published in April 2021

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…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, April 18, 2021

Dry Weather | Book Resurrection | Pet Daisy | Poetry Celebration | Clear Lake | Agenda Notes | CA Poppies | Library Rules | Plant Sale | Ed Notes | Steam Schooner | Settlement Money | Gun Helplessness | Blight Removal | Four Floridians | Neilsen Apprehended | Thomas Dollard | Bostrodamus | Yesterday's Catch | Gerald Haslam | Fire Fox | 2014 Drought | Immigrant Ship | Drought Aid | Stork | Vegetarians | Frontier Communications | Jack Squat | Speaker Disdain | Too Controlling | Obit Watch | Learn Something | Burial Help | Dallas Stoudenmire | Border Pic | Rachel O'Reilly | Bounty Bunk | Marco Radio | Cruz Itch

Marin Sheriff Doyle’s Good Friday Dog Massacre

It was cold and the light was barely beginning to fade when I reached the encampment nestled behind Sausalito’s Dunphy Park. The wind carried the faint scent of fennel weeds which grew in raised clumps…

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