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Posts published in August 2021

The Good, The Bad & The Horrific

Marijuana was the surprise ingredient in the economy of the backwoods in the mid-seventies and made a lot of twenty-something dirty hippies, slackers, and university-educated back-to-the-landers rich overnight when awareness of sinsemilla arrived. (The high…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, August 20, 2021

Smoke Clearing | 55 New Cases | Taskless Force | Night Fishing | Social Canceled | Retirees Honored | Boonville Produce | Air Drop | Jail Positives | Hollyhocks | Ed Notes | Jackson Convicted | Afghan Minis | Voice Analysis | Hung Up | Beat & Run | Yesterday's Catch | Mullet Competition | Free Joint | Diverting Ourselves | Babe 1923 | Precipitating Event | Mexican Railroad | Kaepernick Effect | Shaq/Simone | Bravo Biden | Change Things | War Pigs | What Flower | Top Criminals | Prime Addict | Recall Not | Monument Fire | Climate Intensification | Biden Decline | Hang On

The Sheriff’s Budget Dispute

Sounds like Supervisor Maureen Mulheren got some significant pushback on the question of holding Department heads personally responsible for budget overruns, especially the Sheriff.  SUPERVISOR MULHEREN began: “I have an item for public expression. The…

Reflections of a Northern Californian on Afghanistan

Who didn’t see it coming? The Taliban take-over of Afghanistan. Maybe not as fast and as dramatic as it happened. But anyone without blinders had to have seen it coming from a long way off.…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, August 19, 2021

Diminishing Winds | 54 New Cases | Cache Fire | Crimson Sun | Testing | Boosters | Skyhawk Radio | Students | Produce Exchange | 1885 Ukiah | Wildlife Service | Dos Rios | Plaque Remounted | Recall Red | Redwood Tunnel | Water Emergency | Bible Study | AV Volunteers | Before | Groundwater Plan | Tracks | Ed Notes | Structure | Kelley House | Antiwar | Weed Fatigue | Kabul Fort | Lead Club | Police Reports | Yesterday's Catch | Recall Smug | Fort Kabul | Taliban Statement | Beatitudes | INcrease | Vote Joe | Deep Corruption | Misinformation | Groundwater Law | Trombone Shorty | Attaboy | Ancient Fort | Dem Arrogance | So Long

Deal Shaping Up for Trucking Water from Ukiah to the Coast

Fort Bragg could resume private water sales to the greater Mendocino Coast within two or three weeks, officials from the Mendocino City Community Services District and the City of Fort Bragg said Wednesday. The announcement…

Mendo’s Nickel & Diming of Emergency Services

There are a number of County-inflicted financial annoyances the local Community Services District suffers every year. The County goes out of its way to charge “special districts” for lots of relatively small things, but over…

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