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Posts published in June 2022

Wine Industry Must Use Less Water

On Tuesday I moderated a panel at Napa Thrives, a wine-industry conference focused on climate change. The subject of my panel was one that's been…

The Executioner’s Song

If you have a dog it will get old, and after that it will get really old and you’ll find yourself in the funny position…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, June 27, 2022

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John Ford Declines Fort Bragg

As Friday night’s meeting of the Humboldt County Planning Commission was drawing to a close, Planning and Building Director John Ford confirmed that he will…

A Beacon of Hope

Where 19th century genius meets 21st century thuggery… I had no idea that a militia of armed rebels was conducting a raid just minutes away…

The Perpetual Stew

It was in the seventies when this happened. Synanon. It was the first drug rehab center. But it was more than that. It was its…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, June 26, 2022

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The Steal That Didn’t Get Stopped

There’s papers here. There’s papers there. Could be a desk underneath somewhere.  Entropy got a hold of me inexorably. I keep a stack of items…

Ride to Eat

A hundred miles before breakfast.  It was founding Rider staffer Dick Blom’s number one road rule in the old days back in the Seventies before…

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