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Posts published in May 2021

Lessons from the Past: The 1918 Flu Pandemic (Part 3)

This is our final part in the series looking at the 1918 Influenza Pandemic.  It started in early 1918 and lasted about two years, officially ending in April 1920.  During those two years, it went…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Warm Interior | 11 New Cases | Coast Notes | Polio Ward | Mobile Vax | GP Vegas | PA Vaccinations | Second Graders | Sonoma Water | Logging Camp | More Chrysanthe | Cactus Flower | Tough Question | Alien Visit | Police Reports | 1895 Cerfs | Yesterday's Catch | Woke Suicide | Fox Stupid | High Priests | TV Piper | Benevolence | Baseball v Football | Last Days | Beat Museum | Fourth Marriage | Albion Mill | Tenting Homeless | Swing Time | Queen Wilhelmina | Big Bug | Hyper Complex | Fuel Music | Science Fair | Sacrificed | Grading Biden

It’s in the Oakland A’s DNA

Disturbing news suggests baseball has grown delirious from ill-considered changes made by owners unfamiliar with the game’s history and traditions.  Alarmed, son Lucas and I launched a 250-mile roundtrip journey to Oakland to assess baseball’s…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, May 10, 2021

Gradual Warming | Invasive Euks | Hopland Oak | Against Expansion | Montgomery Woods | Intoxicated Man | JDSF Treesit | Water Intensive | Whale Rock | Ed Notes | Shootings Weekend | Yesterday's Catch | Cartel Messaging | Fake Artists | Whacking Wops | Anthropologist Alert | Good Attorney | AV Loggers | Slob City | Put Out | Sleeper Car | Beggar | Del Crandall | Few Understand | Slowing Down | Banking Game | Afghanistan Obscurantism | Wallach-Duff Home | Mowing Protesters

Probate: How To Be a Savvy Beneficiary

Wow, a double whammy, losing a loved one and discovering you are to inherit a loving gift from them, as they left a Will. Prepare for a journey into the Kabuki theater of the macabre…

Alexander Hamilton Willard

For the last several years I've been on Sacajawea's trail, literally from Montana and Idaho to Oregon. Of course Sacajawea means Lewis and Clark. Part of the trail my brother was working as a tourist…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, May 9, 2021

Increasing Heat | Pet Chip | Sattui Hill | Plane Removal | Great Country | Exercise Classes | Homeless Chico | Trailer Trash | KKK Mendo | Chief Geyser | Ed Notes | Blah Blah Blah | Practice Protest | Book Donations | SoHum Busts | Hop Pickers | Planning Cannabis | Mom Aid | Doesn't Matter | NYRB Office | Looking Back | Yesterday's Catch | Sour Recall | True Anarchy | Survive & Thrive | Prince Woking | Anti-Copishness | Majority Rules | Seriously Wrong | UFO Enigma

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