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Posts published in April 2022

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…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, April 14, 2022

More Rain | Apfel Picnic | AV Wheat | Plant Day | Booneville Collision | Keeping Produce | Mural Celebration | Ukraine | Ed Notes | Evel Knievel | Mo Sez | Switchboard | Marmon Room | Women's Festival | Water Troubles | Orr Street | Fugitive Retrieval | Alphonso Riede | Sprouting Vegetables | MCHCD Website | Yesterday's Catch | Abhorrent UC | Peasant Prodder | Operation Hernia | Window Washers | Putin Guilty | Willits Derrick | Homeless Everywhere | Lord Lovat | Not Syria | Against Satellites | Run John | Caspar's Jumbo

Mendo Courthouse Plans Revived

A revived $118 million state plan to construct a sleek new Mendocino County Courthouse away from Ukiah’s downtown core is being cast by the state as the highest priority among its planned court construction projects…

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