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Posts published in November 2021

Valley People (November 3, 2021)

A YOUNG FAMILY was standing at the west end of the Greenwood Bridge a week ago Sunday gazing at the swollen Navarro River as it made its suddenly turbulent way to the Pacific. It occurred…

COVID Vaccine Gets Go-ahead for Children

On October 29th, the FDA gave Emergency Use Authorization that expands the use of the Pfizer COVID vaccine to children ages 5 to 11.  This was done after Pfizer provided data from a study involving…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021

Sunny Day | 37 Cases | Death 89 | Covid Monthly | Philo Poplars | Millay Autumn | Boosting AV | Art Walk | Measure L | Film Screening | Low Pools | Swimming Hole | Harold/Maude | Gassy People | Weed Party | Trent Video | Ed Notes | California Trucking | Yesterday's Catch | SF Bashing | Problem Customer | Laughing Stock | Old Ukiah | Propaganda Media | Bank Note | Coming Attractions | Bob/Shell | Nuclear Industry | Green Beanery | Walk Home | Host Nations

Founding Father of American Song

Less than a month before the first presidential election of December 1788, Francis Hopkinson published his Seven Songs for the Harpsichord or Forte Piano, dedicating the set “To His Excellency George Washington, Esquire.” Hopkinson was a Philadelphia…

Laytonville Memories

Hello Mr. Anderson & Mr. Livermore, That was some article about Indiana Slim’s Red Hots band and the legendary Piano Jimmy. A pair of fascinating and completely opposite memories from those days. Whoever wrote that…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Nov. 1, 2021

Overcast Rain | Wettest October | Zachery FFA | Sporting Panthers | Cloverdale Boiling | Birthday Nine | Narcan Save | Local Kids | Water-Table Rise | Ed Notes | Crumb Chakras | Supes Briefs | Transwolf | Water Storage | Lake Mendo | Mitomka Gunplay | Without Money | Feeding Arsonists | Yesterday's Catch | Wheatfields | Gambian Poet | Give/Take | Billionaire Escape | Nuke On | Old Europe | Brandon Freakout | Ukiah Cowpoke | Animal Love | Ancient Relic | Water Proposal | Turkeys | Evangelical Drift | Smoking Mask | Pfizerganda

Another Fiasco in Berkeley

The shit is hitting the fan in Berkeley, again. The city, which is notorious for not thinking clearly or honorably about People’s Park and its legacy, announced plans recently to install a public toilet on…

Flipped a Coin, Moved 3,000 Miles

So I semi-temporarily left Ukiah for a town even more dismal, and live on a street with traffic worse than North Dora.  Historically I have done my important planning, as in finding a new home,…

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