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Posts published in July 2021

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Milder Temps | 22 New Cases | Hoophouse Applications | Aquifer Draining | Redwood Grove | Ed Notes | Carmen Basilio | Outdated IT | Hellsgate Dam | Conflict Reply | Sackcloth | Referendum Deadline | Strawhouse | Weed Portal | Yesterday's Catch | Apocalypse Now | Right Cross | Water Projects | Doggie Diner | Fly Me | Big Eye | Intruder | Rock Outcrop | Comments | Point Arena | Cannabis Careers | Prison Visit | Police Brutality | Rollerville | Bad Trip | Presidential Goals | My 1960s

What Oakland Wrought

Occupy Oakland began on October 10, 2011. It lasted until November 21, 2011. “Occupy Everything Liberate Oakland,” posters read. Protesters occupied Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in front of Oakland City Hall and at other places.…

Bruggeman Found Dead

Potter Valley man Ronald “PJ” Bruggeman, Jr, has been found deceased according to Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Captain Greg Van Patten. Last night, at approximately 7:30 p.m, a friend located his body…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, July 19, 2021

Milder Temps | Less Slime | Drought Notes | 1880s Picnic | Pot Rules | Renowned Birdtographer | Splitsville 101 | Noyo Boxer | Toiletwater Wine | Ed Notes | Crusade Update | Term 91 | MAGA Pacman | Willits Revival | Yesterday's Catch | Davin Photos | Trust Theft | Jazz Band | Tattooed Neanderthals | New Hobby | Nothing Compares | Oldest Bar | Vax Mandate | Billionaire Race | Vast Commonwealth | Black Sea | Mockingbird Ban | Simultaneous Discoveries | Public Guardians | Front Page

We’re Going Down

See all the old-time hippies limping around town, getting old, and dying. Remember when we were lean, motivated, and vibrant, fresh-faced young people? What happened? When we were young we didn't think about growing old,…

Plutarch on the Dangers of a Public Career

Harpalus the treasurer had run away from Alexander the Great because he was conscious that his prodigality had led him into criminal practices, and because he was afraid of his master, who was now becoming…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, July 18, 2021

Possible Thunderstorms | 5.1 Quake | Boonville Piggies | Thirsty Ukiah | Cat Special | Hopland Cafe | Jackson Benefit | RedBeard Curiosity | Water Haulers | Agenda Notes | Navarro Grade | Referenda Review | Bruggeman Missing | Luna Landing | People Everywhere | Phase 3 | Peaceful Transition | Pot Consequences | Little Belly | Wells Failing | Shanachie Pub | Pot Portal | Top Cottage | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Tricky Totem | Coffee Song | Curious Reys | Short Synopsis | Charlie Anarchist | Good Times | Bourdain Documentary | Holy Crap | Wild Bill | TV Prez | Collective Expression

On Performance Enhancement

“When Sha’Carri Richardson was barred from the Olympics this month after testing positive for marijuana, it ignited an ongoing conversation about whether the drug should be classified as performance-enhancing for athletes. Does getting high really…

This Is San Francisco (1951)

A thousand miles of trolley wires, five thousand miles of telephone cables, ten thousand miles of neon tubing, four hundred thousand telephones, eight hundred thousand people — and a million and one pieces in a…

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