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Posts published in April 2022

A Tribute to Morris Caraway

You probably knew him even if you never caught his name. You likely saw him driving his red Mustang on the 128. Maybe you saw his huge white fluffy dog named Tinkerbell in that car…

No Game For Old Men

I’d like to say the 2022 baseball season has me all excited, as amped up and thrilled as a front page Ukiah Daily Journal headline like “Women artists at local gallery.” Or golf on TV.…

C.S. Lewis: Epitaph for Joy Davidman

“Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, April 16, 2022

Cold Tonight | Noel Manners | Fog Memory | Visiting NM | Field Trippers | County Notes | Canine Adoption | AV Soccer | Easter Tableau | Earth Day | DeVall Matchbook | Trail Fund | Lloyd Kelley | JDSF Review | Noyo Consort | Mind Lost | Wildflower Show | Village Excursions | Gridiron Civics | Mandate Delay | Comptche Goddess | Inmate Reading | Book Launch | Egg Stand | Yesterday's Catch | Wind Power | Dope Parking | Ukraine | Middle Aged | Toughen Up | Nod Along | Insults | Homeless Hitler | Comments | Cross Lesson | Pervasive Dishonesty | Retirement Plan | Marco Radio | Orwell Reading

Diary of a Mad Campaign

Vicki Williams is the campaign manager for John Redding's run for the Fifth District Supervisor's seat held by Ted Williams. On April 6th, Vicki Williams posted this on her Facebook page: “Did you know that…

Travelers, Sour & Sentimental

“I hate traveling and explorers.”— Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes tropiques (1955) It is an illusion to think that a need to complain about travel is unique to our age of mass tourism. In 1778 Thomas Boswell…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, April 15, 2022

Wet Week | Hopland Fundraiser | Chicks | Undetermined Death | Philo | Diversion Curtailments | Easter Eggs | Supes Reports | Price Changed | Ed Notes | Strange Idols | Ukraine | Mt. Rainier | Litterville | Vernacular Architecture | Boonville Market | Miller Guilty | Labor & Capital | Glen Pinoli | Johanna Beckmann | Dams Expired | Yesterday's Catch | Charles McCabe | Breakfast | Big Lies | Why Care | Euro Refugees | Mindful | Profit Motive | Figure Drawing | No Communication | Savior Delusion | McRay Ranch | Clean Wine | Shipwreck | Feinstein Decline

Mending Fences & Problem Solving with the Sheriff

I found out a long time ago that problems just don’t happen, people make them happen. So it’s half-past enough already for the Board of Supervisors to end this 7-month unseemly, unnecessary, and unwarranted legal…

Guest Editorial: Solving Mendo’s Water Problems!

1. Fire Jared Huffman who said, “If you tear out Scott Dam you would have more water” -- a stupid statement. Scott Dam creates Lake Pillsbury which gives year-round water to Lake Mendocino down to…

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