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Posts published in May 2022

Balls

For years the marketing experts of Major League Baseball (MLB, the owners' consortium) have been tinkering with the manufacturing specifications. For a while they assumed that fans wanted above all to see home runs, so…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, May 14, 2022

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Budget Cuts For Thee, Comfy Business As Usual For Me

The Supervisors say the County faces a $2 million deficit this fiscal year even after some preliminary budget cuts. The county's leadership spent several desultory hours on Tuesday wondering what to do about it. Do…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, May 13, 2022

Low Pressure | Missing Michael | Concert Cancelled | Lost Dog | Leroy Lowery | Lunar Eclipse | M Endorsers | Homebrew Festival | Artshow Opening | Wildflower Show | Fog Works | Maintain Parks | Ferrill Store | Skunk Appeals | Ukiah Protestors | Ed Notes | Ukraine | Rollerville Waterwheel | Water Curtailments | Comptche Pastoral | Sinister California | Noyo Harbormaster | Elect Glentzer | Libertarians | Yard Sale | Yesterday's Catch | Garcia Mill | Serendipity | Starving Babies | Microbusiness Grants | Souvenir Edition | Trust | Water Rules | Western Landscape | Reunion | Bay/Breakers | Sinking Ship | Insane Society

Communication Outage on Coast Was Useful Practice

On Tuesday, May 10th, at approximately 10:40 in the morning, a private construction crew inadvertently drilled into a major communication cable in Fort Bragg.  As a result, communication services were lost throughout all of Fort…

Not a Team Player

In January the dysfunction within the Mendocino Coast Health Care District (MCHCD) Board of Directors caused the head of their bookkeeping service to admonish them to not involve the bookkeeper's employees in the board's disagreements.…

Please Make Payment In Full

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr tosses occasional and minimal scraps to ordinary people, but as US President his real job is to serve the needs and desires of the moneyed class. That's why forgiveness of student…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, May 12, 2022

Storms North | Wild Iris | Coast Blackout | Shipping Point | Outage Observations | Museum Gathering | Microbusiness Grants | Ed Notes | Caspar Sawmill | Home Construction | Tree Planters | Opening Night | Cleone Mill | Ukraine | Desegregation 1960 | Caregiving Forum | Vintage Ads | Food Bank Benefit | Yesterday's Catch | Future View | Village Spirits | Baseballs | Jackie Robinson | Pollinator Workshop | 1872 Mining | Garage/Art | Internet News | Miss Atomic | Disaster Music | Splash Dam | First Term | Windy House | War First

AV Thanks Doctor Apfel

If on a dark and stormy night Dr. Mark Apfel ever wondered if anybody really appreciated him the question has now been resoundingly put to rest. On Saturday On May 7th around 2:00 a whole…

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