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Posts published in December 2021

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Dec. 31, 2021

Freeze Warning | 33 New Cases | King Tides | Bottoms Up | Safety Tips | Salmon Creek | Unraising CoCo | Traffic Control | Homer's Miehle | Dump Phone | Road Work | Trestle Sunset | Yuki Insult | Ex Pest | Colorado Fires | Yesterday's Catch | Village Idiots | Hedgehogs | Weed Exchange | Bible Readers | Garberville Outage | Ghislaine Guards | Long Arc | Germany Decommissioning | Birthday Buddies | Viral Blizzard | Harry Reid | On Grass | Popeye Dating | Evolving Pandemic | Hauling Lumber | Five Things | Picnic Bound | Coast Dems | Outdoor Saloon | AV Village | Goodbye 2021

Forgiving Aaron Sorkin

That’s what I thought I was doing as his new movie, “Being the Ricardos,” streamed across the screen. Written and directed by the prolific Sork, underwritten by Amazon Studios, starring Nicole Kidman and Jason Bardem,…

Here Comes the Sun

Providing electricity to millions of customers is a zero-sum game for both electric utilities and their customers. The generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity are therefore especially vulnerable to passionate single-issue groups eager to myopically…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021

Cold | 13 Cases | Jerry Philbrick | Water/Jocks | 1897 Crew | Government Plan | Westport 1978 | Nuisance Dam | Albion 1930 | Slowing Boonville | Redwood Axemen | Murder Suspect | New Scam | F Line | Ed Notes | Recommended Reading | Meth Problem | Sorrell Corralled | Yesterday's Catch | John Madden | Tyson Tiger | Reagan Code | Windy Portrait | Weed OK | Navarro River | Unhappy Holidays | Tolstoy Search | New Laws | Music Afterlife | Chanticleer Ukiah | Toasty Snowman | Webb Telescope | Capitol Tour

County Notes: Mendo’s Backward Mental Health System

There’s a common misimpression out there in our crumbling world that the mental health 911 calls that cops are responding to are criminal or otherwise violent or dangerous. Mostly, that’s not true. In fact, the…

Letters (December 30, 2021)

Just got a video from a younger family member of their extravaganza church Christmas program. Floods of singers and dancers next to one an another without any masks for over half an hour....

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021

Freezing Temps | 61 New Cases | 128 Elevated | Crab Feed | Covid Testing | Hire Triathletes | Six Hit | Kid's Night | Housing Survey | John Madden | 2022 | Expensive Home | Sierra Snow | Ed Notes | Hee Haw | Biloxi Days | Yesterday's Catch | Sagan Foreboding | Neck Tats | Fastest Thing | Dem Lunacies | Tahja Children | Privilege | Ferndale | Koko Taylor | Working Poor | Weimar USA | Commie Lucile | Vital Services | Drug Policy | Letterpress Exhibit | Trent Video | Low-Power Radio | Albion Train

Off the Record (December 29, 2021)

JIM PAGE NOTES:  “About the Ukiah Co-Op incident — here’s a cell phone video that’s pretty interesting to watch. You can clearly hear an employee say that the store protocols are posted and that “If…

Valley People (December 29, 2021)

DR. MARK APFEL has announced his retirement from his many years at the Anderson Valley Health Center. Dr. Apfel was primary among the Center's founders when it was first located in 1976 in the now…

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