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Posts published in July 2021

The SoHum Report: Summer Solstice Weed Update

There is no market.  If you didn't get $700 a pound last month you might not get $600 now for last year's off-brand flavors. Everyone who was waiting to get more, in both the black…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, July 2, 2021

Nightly Stratus | 7 New Cases | Mezzanatto-Benitez | Table Raffle | Brewery Fire | Kiera Missing | Jackson Action | Penis Cloth | Records Hall | AVHC Expansion | Philo Produce | Local Beef | Boonville Produce | Starr Reopening | Public Transit | Commercial Ag | Miller's Qualifications | San Quentin | Ed Notes | Steam Truck | Planning Agenda | AV Village | Police Reports | Blackhawk Firecopter | Caradine Guilty | Yesterday's Catch | News Truck | Grand Illusion | Rummy WMDs | Vietnam Memorial | War Crimes | Prison Bodybuilders | That's Life | Precipitation Preparation | Tramp Jane | My Heart | Mandela Mandala | Lazy Legislators

‘Goddamn It, Doc, Won’t You Ever Quit!’

By the end of the first week of December, 1879, all but one of the Mendocino Outlaws resided in jail or had been killed. The lone exception, Harrison Brown, escaped the fatal shootout at a…

The Public’s Business, Anybody Listening?

Back in 1997, Gary Milliman, who at the time was Fort Bragg’s City Manager, and I were talking about a problem he was facing regarding conflicts and ethics over his involvement with the Skunk Train.…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, July 1, 2021

Dry Heat | Rainfall Totals | 5 New Cases | Mendo Covid | Wendling Mill | AV Scholars | B Palaver | Library Sale | Ed Notes | Speed Enforcement | Police Reports | Siskiyoujuana | Boonville 1909 | Ordinance Referenda | Boonville 1915 | AVA Verboten | Fiddleheads Decision | Mobile Grill | Free Admission | New Trick | Drought Chat | Yesterday's Catch | Owens Aquaduct | Demented Dunce | Prank Update | All BS | Trickle Down | Internet Freedom | Grow Up | Overcrowding Situation | Prather's Store | Everybody Knows | American Sadism

Letters (June 30, 2021)

According to Sonoma Water’s monitoring data, the lower Russian River is loaded with excessive levels of phosphorus that, when combined with the hot sun and low flows, cause extensive algal growth that gets worse as flows decrease...

County Notes (June 30, 2021)

MOST of the dubious consent calendar items we complained about last week were approved by the Supes 5-0 without comment on Tuesday. Supervisor Haschack pulled his anti-hobby-horse, the “expanded” pot permit program item, Item 4ax,…

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