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Posts published in July 2021

Letters (July 7, 2021)

If the proponents of the proposed cannabis referendums are to be believed, enacting the new ordinance will result in untold environmental devastation. In truth, the dysfunctional system of little to no regulation is the cause of actual environmental damage...

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Warm Becoming Hot | CoCo's Opinion | Grange Reggae | Ed Notes | AV Class | Ag Water | Four McAbees | Yesterday's Catch | Pet Lit | Ruthless Rummy | Dos Rios | British Provocation | Deer Jam | Political Demands | Talmage Bar/Store | Book Review | Weatherman | White Rabbit | Dust Storm | Comments | Ukiah Stage | Commercial Ag | Employee Turnover | Jack Zuck | Squaw Rock | Rolling Thunder

My Day at the Beach with Reagan

Saturday, my day started with a text from my good friend Reagan Hansbury wondering what I was up to for the day. He has been into the concept of earthing, and has been certain that…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, July 5, 2021

Hotter Ahead | Cannaversation | Apple Pickers | Populist Movements | Fudded Up | Likely Uncertain | Animal House | Reefer Sadness | GP People | Ed Notes | Black Anthem | 10-Mile Loggers | Competing Referenda | Negro Men | Acute Pericarditis | Practice Pods | 6672 Plants | CCC Frolic | Perv Roundup | Dolly Lookalike | Clutts Couch | Islamic Giants | Zimspotting | Yesterday's Catch | Great Plan | Lytton Heat | Passenger Plane | Weird Future | SmartCrow | Crime Plague | Firewood Machine | Neptune Spear

Getting Old the Elderly Way

It's fashionable to be old in America these days. Our elderly are treated with reverence tinged with envy, altogether proper for a generation that has done so much for so few: Themselves.  There's never been…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, July 4, 2021

Hot & Cool | Evers Search | Pet Raven | Spiritual Nexus | Konocti Lookout | Lyle's Place | Thornton Hotel | Circus Fan | Crissy Field | Swastika Graffiti | Independence Day | Hate Crime | Mask Reconsidered | Ed Notes | Lucky Stiff | Identity Crisis | Abolish Hell | Outdoor Art | Yesterday's Catch | Dynamite Fun | Sprinter Suspension | Water Temple | Assange Blackout | Space Race | Trail Money | Road Builders | Dam Removal | Nuclear Protest | Cosby Release | Urgent Fury

CHS is Real, Russo Finds

The International Cannabinoid Research Society's annual symposium was held by zoom June 21-24. Gone are the days when blockbuster discoveries were announced at ICRS meetings. The structure of the body's two cannabinoid receptors (CB1 and…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, July 3, 2021

Stratus Intrusions | 4 New Cases | Highway Fatality | Ukiah Motel | Yorkville BBQ | Suspicious Fire | Auto Camp | Drought Notes | Curing Concrete | Drought Zoom | Holiday Music | Streetscape Bummer | Caspar Vista | Disaster Relief | Hotel Covelo | Law Library | Ed Notes | Amaryllis | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | People's Party | Flying Allies | Portland's Deviation | Violin Violence | Female Polygamist | Cannabis Ag | Emily Poems | Terracotta Warriors | Palestinian Defense | Feeling Relaxed | Angry American | Indifferent Penguin | Shadow Government | Stark Save | Intellectual Capture

Settler Icons: Lyle Luckert, Part II

Thinking back on the Lyle memoir I wrote last week, I realized there were clues he and Grace were getting restless living in Anderson Valley.  One of the themes we used to explore regularly in…

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