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Posts published in June 2021

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, June 19, 2021

Hot Interior | 15 New Cases | Pulled Pork | Yorkville Saga | Mask Guidance | Long Summer | Closure Questions | Ridge Hotel | Agenda Notes | Flea Market | Riverfront Homestead | Police Reports | Arena Cove | 450 Plants | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Pay Disparity | Shasta Storm | Black & White | Vietnamese Arms | Unflooded | Dying Salmon | Worst Drought | God Ate | Huff Stunt | Jim Bridger | Another Chance | Social Media | U.S. Media | Fascist Party | Elephant Killers | Newsom Interview | Redcrest Grocery | Odious Rackets

Marx in the Afterlife

1. According to Bob Dylan On Rough and Rowdy Ways, the album Dylan released on the eve of turning 80, there's a song called "My Own Version of You" in which he shows us Karl Marx…

Wine Spectator on Bankable Cannabis

Paul Masson coined the slogan. Orson Welles repeated it dramatically in one of the most memorable ads ever in the world of viticulture: “We will sell no wine before its time.” No doubt about it,…

A Bear Named Club Foot

Mendocino County pioneers loved to share stories about interactions with bears. Here’s one from a little booklet called “Lore of the Coast: Fact or Fiction” published by the Mendocino County Historical Society about 50 years…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, June 18, 2021

Hot Interior | 11 New Cases | Company Kitchen | Noyo Boat | Whereas Blizzard | Grange Movie | FB Hermit | Modern World | Ed Notes | Le Prince | Arena Cove | Curiosity Killed | No Poo-poo | Cancer Competition | BOS Agenda | Gull Tip | 1896 Tsunami | Museum Program | Domesticated Carl | Yesterday's Catch | Brace Yourself | Dry Heat | Not Founders | Various Trolls | Nine Yards | Moral Weight | Cost Conscious | Radio Scam | Custom Urn | Waiting For You | Best Planet | Kucinich Again | Artist God

Anderson Valley Archetypes: George Zeni

This story owes a great deal to an article George’s Fish Rock neighbor Steve Alden wrote for the Mendocino Grapevine in July, 1984.  Steve’s recollections highlight much about the immigrant Zeni family’s roots and his Army career…

The ‘Small Is Beautiful Mendocino’ Referendum

Last week, I filled you in on a coalition that I helped form that will be circulating a referendum petition to repeal the 10 percent expansion rule approved on June 2 by the Mendocino County…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, June 17, 2021

Interior Heat | 6 New Cases | Power Use | Animal Evac | FB Issues | Evers About | Driver Identified | Gray Noizz | Skyhawk Radio | Logging Begins | Hop Pickers | Police Budget | Wringer | Rojas Joyride | Plain Nuts | Tree Trimmers | Woke Police | Underpaid Firefighters | Tonsorial Claude | Lopez Documentary | On Safari | Ed Notes | Wuhan Cat | Ganja Listening | Piccolo Problem | Dual Realities | Time Machine | Humco Trail | Birthtrac | Life Conversations | 27,352 Plants | Yesterday's Catch | Newsom's Folly | Osa Johnson | Future Path | Lather | Ecological Meltdown | Jedi Lieberman | Eviction Tsunami | Satyajit Ray | Danger Island | Spooked Review

Letters (June 16, 2021)

I find it ironic that 1,400 irrigators in the upper Klamath Basin who use Klamath River water to irrigate their potato and alfalfa fields are ready to incite violence to protect their federally created water rights. ..

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