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Posts published in July 2022

These Destroyers of Towns

The black death wreaks havoc on medieval villages.https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/these-destroyers-towns

Mendocino County Today: Friday, July 22, 2022

Marine Layer | Arrants Missing | Ladder Trick | Water Needs | Crisis Prevention | PA Ladies | Caspar Zoom | Closed Session | DUI Case | Ed Notes | Ukiah Madness | George Stevenson | Haschak Report | Golden Gate | Mo's Program | Gas Price | Biffworld | Maude Weller | Van Damme | Fayals 74 | Summer Fair | Hardy Hotel | Sako Speculates | Yesterday's Catch | Mendocino Line | Usually Guilty | Trans Officials | Ukraine | Get Well | New Taliban | Halifax 37 | System Failing | Jake Scott | Poker Tournament | Founding Fathers | Jan 6 Hearings | Scrap Metal

The Great Divide

Intentionally or unintentionally, Congress’ elected Democratic Party leaders have won the January 6 Hearings. No matter what testimony remains to come in the final session (or sessions), the creation of the Committee was a stroke…

Philo First Settler Families: Aunt Blanche & Indian Creek

Dr. John Brown, Aunt Blanche’s grandfather, settled in Philo in 1862, during the Civil War. His family had migrated to California, along with Iowa neighbors, the Prathers and Ingrams, in 1863. Brown family roots go…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, July 21, 2022

Summer Days | Meadow Fire | Five Deaths | River Redwoods | DSL Update | Big Data | Chief Reception | Annie Oakley | AV Village | Housing Zoom | Gas Profits | Night Out | Nomination Time | Property Tax | Farm Report | Redwood Stump | GJ on B | Last Illusion | Ed Notes | Carjacker Guilty | Police Reports | COMMET Busts | Officially Begun | Yesterday's Catch | Consoling BoJo | Regulating Neonicotinoids | Free Assange | Reform Debate | Orwell Shocked | Military Rebranding | Jerry Lee | Ukraine | Nature Reclaimed

Supes Ok Well/Water Hauling Ordinance

Since the Fall of 2021, I have served on a committee working under the auspices of the Board of Supervisors Ad Hoc Drought Committee comprised of Supervisors John Haschak and Glenn McGourty. The charge given…

County Notes: It’s Not Funny, Supervisor Williams

A large crowd of County employees appeared in the newly over-remodeled Board chambers on Tuesday to complain about pay rates, vacancies, over-work and general frustration and low morale. Several very presentable and articulate employees voiced…

Letters (July 21, 2022)

Let’s talk about dealing with drought. Expensive new infrastructure benefits the wealthy. Water rationing benefits most of us.…

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