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Posts published in February 2022

Off the Record (February 16, 2022)

RECOMMENDED VIEWING. I never thought Bill Cosby was funny — all that cutesy mugging — and only caught glimpses of him over the years, not being a sitcom guy. The whole Cosby phenomenon passed me…

Valley People (February 16, 2022)

GOVERNOR NEWSOM’S  Clean California Initiative will include some money for the “Central Boonville Beautification” project, specifically art, crosswalks, and street trees.  ART? Uh oh. Could be dangerous to The Valley’s psychic well-being if by “art”…

Dialing Back COVID Restrictions

On February 15th, the California-wide mask mandate is expiring.  This allows people whose vaccinations for COVID are current to be indoors in public without a mask.  Unvaccinated persons still must be masked.  This does not…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022

North Wind | 48 New Cases | 2 Deaths | Balloon Man | MCHCD Zoom | Milky Way | Heart Box | El Corazon | Defeated/Advancing | Donate Chickens | Chosen Woman | Lady Liberty | Drunk Dad | Mendocino Funnies | JDSF Review | 1913 Parade | Skunk Facts | Scholarship Money | Gaye's Advice | End Times | PG&E Increase | Yesterday's Catch | Soap Ad | Whole Person | Tender Love | Knowledge Quest | Grand Hotel | Housing Homeless | Chesty Says | Speed Wobble | Trump Library | Woke Wastrels | Pepperoni Cave | Weed Zooms | Dear Bob | Western Drought | Sweat Lodge

Danube Blues

On the one-year anniversary of the storming of the U.S. Capitol many were the dire assessments of the state of the American republic. Nor were watchdogs of democracy cheered by the situation across the Atlantic.…

This Is for All the Lonely People

Splitting kindling under a dwindling sun Leaves on the ground beneath the trees Delicious–golden and red Leaves damp brown Redwood and fir snags Spires on the southern sky Line after line reminds me of you…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Feb. 14, 2022

Valentine Goodies | Cloudy Cool | Missing Hollie | House Protest | Solidarity | Free Lunch | Be Mein | Honeybee Heist | Bright Light | Cash Crop | Albion Wharf | Public Criticism | Canclini 93 | Ed Notes | Satchel Paige | Student Debt | Yesterday's Catch | Hotsky | Comfortably Numb | Garden Masterpiece | Disgusting PG&E | Straw Capes | Carpool Lane | DC Convoy | Staffing Crisis | Albion 1911 | Fultan Allen | Life Saver | Retired Philanthropy | Railway Ties | Pandemic Politics | Break Glass | Killing RFK | Quit Stalin

Who Gave Us This ‘Legalization’?

Dale Gieringer and Ellen Komp of California NORML and Dale Sky Jones of Oaksterdam University are pro-Cannabis activists based in the Bay Area. In 2015 they sought input from allies and “stakeholders,” hired a lawyer,…

My Favorite Audit

There’s been an interesting mini-discussion about audits and auditing in the comment section of our website, since some readers seem to think they wouldn’t vote for a new library sales tax unless an audit of…

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