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Posts published in October 2021

Book Review: Losing It

Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin Pantheon Books, 2021; 292 pp. $26.95 Of all the dreaded afflictions that affect the human mind, the one that has come to be known as “Alzheimer’s Disease”* is surely among…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021

Wet Ahead | Pet Dude | Policing Challenges | Wild Pigs | Anti-Vax Fee | Bobcat | Dog Stories | Pigeon | Dredging Question | Bear | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Loo Ado | Enough Drink | Electric Waste | Living Wage | Riot Consequences | SkyCot | Reporter's Alert | Streetlight Maintenance | Marco Radio | Ukiah Snow | Goodbye America

The College Kid Runs the Ukiah Auction

So to wrap up the Ukiah Sale sheep auction management saga, here’s a description of what a grueling summer day out in the dusty sheep pens and corridors felt like to a forty year old…

Mendocino County’s Last Real Supervisor

Joe Scaramella explained the moment in his life when he got the inspiration to get into politics: “I've been on the receiving end of injustice many times. But the most significant thing that affected my…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021

Rain Coming | 16 New Cases | MRC Logrolling | Forest Degradation | Westport Octoberfest | Captain HazMat | Mendo Towers | Hit/Paused/Ran | Police Searching | Trent #5 | Fir Sit | Dust Maker | La Nina | Bad Jose | Bushansky Sez | Yesterday's Catch | Meeting Che | Phone Scam | Leadermobile | Antietam Diary | Bridge Building | Cobain | Country Immunity | Rise Up | Dwarf Tossing | Ashli's Birthday | Babbitt T | Forward Party | Jack Unmasked | On Capitalism | Spurs | Popular Resistance | Redistricting Concerns | Plunder Code | Marine Protection | Elon Monk | Fire Scientists

Forrest and the Hermit

Forrest was born along the Albion in spring time, when the river and its gulch tributaries were still swollen enough for fishing. He arrived in 1909, the last of his mother and father's six children.…

But I Can’t Remember What I Had For Lunch

I bought my first house in 1983, a 2BR 1BA baby on North Oak Street that cost $46,000, roughly $30,000 more than I could afford considering interest rates. Ripped out the green shag living room…

Ten Commandments for ‘Pro-Lifers’

Thou shalt not seek to insert anti-abortion words into the Bible or any other scriptures where it is never once mentioned, nor seek to breach America’s hallowed separation of church and state, recalling that the…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Oct. 15, 2021

Warm Dry | 18 New Cases | Dodgers Win | Bear Ransacking | 128 Sightings | Homicide Search | Grant Relief | Chestnut Gathering | Slim Updates | Proto Hippie | Agenda Highlights | Salvage Logging | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Longest War | Logger Break | LakeCo News | Little Moon | Uncertain Future | Chimp Art | Lunatic Abuse | Gruden Visit | Laurel & Hardy | Stealing Home | Out of Candy | Outdoor Work | JDSF Battleground

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