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Posts published in July 2021

A Note to Past and Current Subscribers

We were clearing out all our old expired Paypal subscription accounts this afternoon — housekeeping! — and didn't realize that Paypal would subsequently send a cryptic note to all those old email addresses. The Paypal…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, July 26, 2021

Monsoonal Moisture | Fire Watch | Rust Pile | River Stop | Future Farmers | Referendum Short | Calder's Peak | Mo Disappointed | Wino Run | Skunk Claims | Redwood Journalists | Acting Trick | Orr's | Bragg Fort | Ed Notes | Pioneer Inn | Waterful Ukiah | Last Case | Yesterday's Catch | Brotherly Love | Civics | Greed Rush | Horse Intro | Chaotic Climate | Joe Cannabis | Civil Rights | Struggling People | Fraud Investigation | Found Object

Assault On A Capitol Fourth

A quarter century ago Newt Gingrich, elevated to Speaker of the House by the 1994 midterm Republican landslide that followed on Bill Clinton’s first two years in the White House, loved to squawk about defunding…

Willits, Minus Traffic & Exhaust

I hadn’t been to Willits in a year or more, and when I drove through it a week ago it slowly dawned that the city looked different, and better. Way better. It’s gotten better than…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, July 25, 2021

Triple Digits | 5150 Call | Runner Rescued | Team Rubicon | County Roads | Misinformation | Purple Keys | Picky Multitude | News Bummer | Bridgework | Elliot Brothers | Mars 10¢ | Screwball Opinion | Cocaine Toothache | Phase 3 | Idiot Invasion | Real Solutions | High Cholesterol | Ocean Protection | Wooden Bomb | McGuire Approvals | Yesterday's Catch | Toxic Algae | Surprising Giants | American Welcome | Space Junk | Shrinkwrapped | Kunstler Watch | Bootcamp | Forever Chemicals | Natural Selection | Anti-Semitic Custard | Boom | Dance Party | Inescapable Seeming | Work | Thankful Victim | Dem Party

Where’s My Socialism?

For a variety of reasons I watch a fair amount of Fox News, which I’m frequently at odds with on issues and none more so than socialism. Its bad enough that nobody there seems to…

Anderson Valley Schoolhouses

“What Became of the Little Red Schoolhouse: Facts & Figures-Tales & Photos of Early Mendocino County” is 30 years old but it’s five volumes are a great resource for history trivia. The same information was…

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