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Posts published in July 2022

The Age of Distracti-pression

A grotesque computer-generated graphic covered the front page of the Sunday Styles section —nothing but bottles of glossy, rainbow-colored pills. It alerted readers to a piece on page 5, where Casey Schwartz mused on why…

Low Juror Turnout

About one in three Mendocino County residents summoned for possible jury duty are failing to show up. Empty JuryRoom Court statistics show that more than 12,000 people failed to appear at the County courthouse during…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, July 15, 2022

Interior Warming | Titus Memorial | Found Dead | Play Structure | Mill/Skunk Chat | Muchowski 60th | Ed Notes | Laundry Dance | Noyo Harbormaster | Colonel Wingnuts | Help Wanted | County Finances | Navarro Estuary | Night Out | New Courthouse | Falleris & Friend | Annotating Mo | Cassiopeia Skyfish | Jivan Om | Yesterday's Catch | Immense Accretion | Jim O'Donnell | Bostrodamus | Hayride | Dump Biden | Sadie Milliken | Endless Prosecution | Try Again | More War | Hoop Dreams

Pig Crossing

This morning I was roused out of a sound and rare sleep by my wife blowing her nose. It was 2:18am. With our 1.25 year old enduring the trials of cutting teeth, we haven't been…

The Other Drought

State Senator Mike McGuire was in Mendocino County this week for a rather pathetic photo op.  On his facebook page McGuire posted: “A big water storage project is coming to the community of Mendocino -…

County Animal Shelter Requests Public’s Help

Richard Molinari, Shelter Director for the Mendocino County Animal Shelter said a recent Facebook post brought attention to a serious concern - an overabundance of animals housed at the shelter. On June 14, Molinari posted…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, July 14, 2022

Warming | Buck Moon | Unhappy Employees | Decommissioning PVP | Choco Dance | Missing Person | Forced Consolidation | Miss Stickney | Ed Notes | Radical Finns | Deep Work | Chore Buddy | Del & George | MCN Future | Master Plan | Fort Braggery | Hunter Education | Ukiah Fair | Yesterday's Catch | Stealth Fliers | Ukraine | Completely Corrupted | Dollar Collapse | Corporate Advertiser | War Bad | Two Ladies | San Franciscana | Man's World | Paved Paradise | Fred Johnson | Dislikes Hartmann | Rude People | One World | Friend Death | True Face | Welcome Pause

All Rise for the Cement Palace

State court officials are ready to call for bids for construction of a planned $118 million new Mendocino County Courthouse in Ukiah. The new court building will be erected on the south side of Perkins…

Letters (July 14, 2022)

Words cannot adequately express the gratitude which I feel for having received three books from an anonymous reader of the Advertiser. Not only am I thankful for something to read in solitary confinement…

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