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Posts published in March 2022

Who Killed ‘Medical Marijuana’?

Despite the good-guy-vs.-bad-guy framework so common in fiction, in real life there can be two, three — many bad guys and nary a good guy in sight. Attorney Heather Burke is urging pot partisans not…

Water & Wells, Gas Gouging

At this week’s Board of Supervisors meeting (March 15), a series of recommendations were discussed concerning the ongoing drought and related activities involving property owners selling water to water haulers from existing wells or drilling…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, March 26, 2022

Warm Afternoon | 5 New Cases | Ukraine Update | Pictures Taken | Summer Dread | Camp Detritus | Revisiting Kemper | Skate Day | Fire Starters | Missing Person | Public Bank | Sun Shades | Police Reports | Yesterday's Catch | Endless War | Oscar Buckholtz | Yellow Submarine | MHS Orchestra | Stuff Happens | Albright Obit | Trial Experience | Frog Survey | LR Pier | Instant Dislike | feMale Swimmer | Open Mike | Marco Radio | Myosotis | Emotional Courage | Confirmation Clowns | US Disinformation | Covid Decorations

Doc to Dissolution

To ride with Doc Standley in 1892 or... whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of the outrageous fortunes of the Mendocino Coast Health Care District Board of Directors in…

Big Oil, Big Opera: Handel at the Met

Handel was born with an umlaut on his name: Händel.  He rubbed it out after he left his native Germany for a sojourn of several years in Italy before emigrating to non-diacritical England in 1711…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, March 25, 2022

Fog & Sun | 7 New Cases | BA.2 Arrives | 2 Positives | Logging Camp | Tax Error | War Claims | Spring Garden | Unity Club | Caspar Trestle | Redbeard Sentenced | Ogden Fundraiser | Ukiah Trail | Adult Ballet | Hopland Blues | Wonderland Performance | Ed Notes | Mendo Cornfield | Rubber Dam | Clan McEwan | Seductive Success | Drive-in Movie | Isolated CEO | Breaktime | Exec Pay | Yesterday's Catch | Be Independent | Iraq Flag | Wild Orphan | Hilda Sutherland | Suing Hillary | Big Bust | Redwood Felling | Fentanyl Discussion | Reject Evidence | Wonderfully Done | Cocaine Days | Nursing Career | Welcome Back | Panhandle | Defending Ukraine | Westport Family | Westernmost Bar | Mill Pond | Racist Babies | Clown Congress | Assange Marriage

The Great Redwood Boondoggle

At the first meeting of the Great Redwood Trail Agency, Bay Area weatherman Mike Pechner accurately predicted that the “new” agency’s project was “a financial boondoggle that would spend several billions of dollars in maintenance…

AV Health Center: Founders & Early Days

Many readers know the Anderson Valley Health Center has recently launched a Capital Campaign to fund construction of the much needed addition to its offices on Airport Drive.  The new space is essential to the…

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