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Posts published in July 2021

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…

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...

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