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Posts published in May 2022

Calizuela, Here We Come

The most convincing lie California politicians have managed to sell to the public is the notion THAT homelessness is inevitable, exists everywhere, has no known origins and can be alleviated only by spending lots and…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, May 8, 2022

Showers | Candidate's Night | Navarro Store | Sweet Affair | School Tours | Pet Dory | New Courthouse | AVFFA Dinner | Covid Dollars | Church Chairs | For Hutchins | Wolf Turn | AV Events | Flockmaster | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Ukraine | Finn Forsberg | Boudin Derangement | Burleson Book | Student Loan | Death Stare | PG&E Rates | Truxton | Blythe | Angry Lady | Enter Hunter | Caspar Loggers | Homelessness | C'mon Sam | Against SCOTUS | Street Art | Mom | Elephant Womb | Polish Schools | Worker Cabins | Marco Radio | Lookout | Covid Nation | Eureka Vid

In The Beginning Was The Weed

The Washington state legislature has voted unanimously to ban the word marijuana from its legal code and replace it with the word cannabis.   As reported on the website of Seattle's KIRO-TV: “The term ‘marijuana’ itself is pejorative and…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, May 7, 2022

Between Fronts | Apfel Picnic | Burgled | Wrong House | Fishing Clinic | Political Signs | Vigilante Call | Orr Springs | Mail Ballots | Daily Walk | Fire/EMS Spending | Job Fair | Pilates | Tahjas | Haiku Festival | Wildflower Show | Giusti Report | Catfish Cabin | Apology Time | Police Reports | Murray Settlement | Yesterday's Catch | Planning Agenda | Ukraine | 1937 | Duplicitous | Liberal Slacks | Unwanted Children | Fu-Go | Maniacal | Klinefelter | This Too | Libertarian | Treehouse | Bostrodamus | Please Hold | Dope Lawyer | Fish Save | Musicians | Nukes | Neanderthal | Nausea | Meadow | Marco Radio | Bluffs | Darwinians | Kuwait | Megadrought | Loggers | HST Derby | Embiid

Wildflower Show 2022

If there is one thing that stands out when looking at a large collection of wildflower specimens it is their delicacy. Wildflowers are small, mostly tiny. They are exquisite but they are very economically put…

Overpopulation of Cuffy in AV

Coastal, Cuffy’s Cove, was named after the Russian word for “bear”. Mid-February 2022, I came home to the contents of my outside refrigerator scattered on the floor of the shed. Previously, the fridge sat there…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, May 6, 2022

More Rain | Apfel Picnic | Ladder Help | Eminent Domain | Ernie Thankful | Beach Ball | Skunk Challenge | Class 1892 | Missing Jurors | Boonville Troubadours | Limit Rentals | Family Portrait | Ed Notes | Boss Tweed | Indigenous Women | Docsplaining | Ukraine | Ladies Band | Fentanyl Pipeline | Rocket Chalk | Jiggery Pokery | Yesterday's Catch | 4 OM | About Babies | Francis Drake | Foretold | Mask Advice | General Patton | Diaper Money | Military Complex | Mary McChesney | Israeli Dancing | Fracking Report

Redding Accused of Extortion

Mendocino Coast Health Care District Board member, and candidate for 5th District Supervisor, John Redding has been accused of extortion. The extortion accusation comes via an April 14th email written by attorney Arthur D. Hodge…

Toots at 100

When I sat down this morning to write my column on my laptop, the day’s Google Doodle greeted me. There was a colorful tableau of jazz signs—piano keyboard, drumstick on cymbal, trumpet, clarinet— with Toots…

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