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Posts published in March 2022

Letters (March 24, 2022)

Water, a precious commodity, is already being rationed to people who live, work and play in northern Sonoma County. They are on the west side of the river, in Cloverdale…

Off the Record (March 23, 2022)

PUTIN'S WAR ON UKRAINE is, by itself, a major crime and, potentially, this time next year we could be roasting squirrels over open pit fires in the hills of Mendocino County if Putin decides to…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Cooler Today | 9 New Cases | Shelling Mariupol | Valadao Procession | Property Taxes | Hopland Fire | Boonville Bodywork | MCHCD Meeting | Peterson Shipyard | Water Funding | Redneck Expense | Ed Notes | Hospital Lighting | Unlicensed Contractor | Yesterday's Catch | Destroying Cities | Tele Vision | Nazi Problem | Distracted Monkeys | Walmart Pilgrimage | Patience & Understanding | Provisional Sunset | Gold Miners | Infantile Statecraft | Mae Lillies

Valley People (March 23, 2022)

JULIA ACKER KROG has been appointed Director of Planning and Building Services. On March 3, 2022, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Carmel Angelo appointed Julia Krog as Director of the Department of Planning and Building Services,…

Booster Confusion

As COVID cases continue to decline in the US, while rising in some other areas in the world, a lot of attention is being placed on COVID vaccine boosters.  Should we be doing a second…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Warming | 11 Cases/1 Death | Odesa Airstrikes | Drought Funding | 2022 Fair Dates | Officer Mezzanato | Opioid ODs | Museum Courtyard | Soil Needed | Ed Notes | Library Sale | Macdonald Book | Nesting Dove | Coast Rentals | Log Load | Kirov Square | Preschool Openings | Thirsty Grapes | Herman Fayal | Mental Health | Relax | Spicer Drama | Yesterday's Catch | Doubiago 1993 | Previous Man | Cyclists | Revoked Licenses | Eroding Church | Civil War | The Drift | Two Dads | Pomo Rally | Mehditorial | Choco Bunnies | SF Standup | Video Mag | Croc Tears | 1912 Girls

Who Needs a Conductor?

One of the longest seconds I ever lived through came just before the beginning the Dies irae from Mozart’s Requiem. The members of the Stanford Chorus crowded onto the risers at the back of the…

Trust Our Experts, Give Them Money

A recent column examined some of the ways we get ourselves worked up over imaginary threats to society, like the impact video games have on the fragile emotional states of our children, how GMOs destroy…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, March 21, 2022

High Pressure | Equinox | No Surrender | River Flat | Junior Lifeguards | Tsunami Test | PHF Development | Borage | Small Farm | Highway Fatality | Stress/Medicare | Author Showcase | Beached | Free Lunch | Greenwood School | Water Projects | Oil Field | Gravy Trail | Gloomy Thoughts | Noyo Bridge | License Revoked | Ed Notes | Child Exploitation | Many Proposals | Yesterday's Catch | Lip Prints | Semi Fillup | War Escalation | 1930 Family | DST Dud | Coal Sacks | Plastic Pants | Sunup/Sundown | Grapes Wrath | Protest Fatigue | Doggie Balloons | Succulent Thief | Mendo Shipwreck | Given Up | Old Prez | Ukraine Resistance | Unworthy Victims

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