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Posts published in July 2022

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Cooling | Kingfisher | Chief Cervanka | Old Noyo Bridge | Kind Act | Buck Moon | Antle Promotion | Livestock Auction | Financial Mess | Luther Redemeyer | Elk BBQ | Ed Notes | Train Horn | Nettie Berning | Moonie Connection | Summer Gardens | Skyhawk Cat | Abe Letter | Boonville Peppers | Dating Relationship | PA Election | Yesterday's Catch | Damn Fireworks | Delayed Response | Crazy Times | Being Human | Taco Inflation | Field Work | Stupid Claim | Justifying Selfishness | Aggressive Oligarchy | Google Polarizing | Connell Eviction | Strange Times | Mussolini Mugshot | Propaganda/Censorship | Green Dreams | Starlings

Off the Record (July 13, 2022)

DO YOU WANT OUT? A friend said he’d listened to a Bay Area talk show as serial callers said they would like to emigrate. I say, “Here’s your hat and what’s your hurry?” Couldn’t get…

COVID Fatigue

Let’s talk about COVID fatigue.  I am not talking about the lack of energy that some people feel after having an infection with COVID, but the fatigue that we are all feeling from hearing about…

Valley People (July 13, 2022)

SCOTT SALO is the dozer operator badly injured Friday off Flynn Creek Road. We don't yet have an update on his condition. The accident knocked out power in the Comptche area for two hours. PG&E…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Cooling | Busy EMT | Caspar Rave | Melburne Camp | Selling MCN | Water Tax | Beating Lawsuit | Mo Live | Skunk Shack | Pomo Woman | Neighborhood Preservation | Mayme Goldsam | Ed Notes | Police Reports | Buried Ancestors | Yesterday's Catch | Ukraine | Job Churn | Weed Economics | Mouthwash Girl | Solar Regret | Point Arenans | Newsom Future | Joe Fell | Enough Biden | Pay Phone | Branson Check | Just Beware | Distracted Populace | Switzers | PDQ&A | Ferns | Republican Dystopia | Car Seat | Mexican Embrace | Living Wage | NATO Menace | Grate Art

A Great Endeavor

I wish I had a time machine. I would teleport a small delegation of Ben Franklin, Tom Jefferson, and Button Gwinnett from their sweltering labors at Independence Hall — then known as the Pennsylvania state…

Bonus Track: Radar

He wears granny glasses, not to be hip bought him a paperback Tao Te Ching A Specialist 4 on a Korean trip Oh, Radar O’Reilly of thee I sing If Hot Lips is snitching and…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, July 11, 2022

Hot | Beth Exit | Flowers | MCHCD Meeting | Spark Arrester | Ed Notes | Schoolhouse | Broadband Please | Hendy Woods | MCN Repercussions | Khadijah Mural | Barking Dogs | Big Tree | Sublease Blues | Primary Care | Mandal Fairbanks | Water Projects | All Stars | Well Regulation | Yesterday's Catch | Ukraine | Romanian Hovel | Tyre Extinguishers | Rapture Care | Murder Shireen | No Quixotes | Abortion Guilt | My Environment | Baseball Demise | Woman Hung | SF Reads | James Caan | Weed Odyssey | Size 0 | Ukraine Fantasy | Trompe L'Oeil | Extended Warranty | No Character | Corruption Poet | Clarence Dystopia | Neptune | Drought Tips | Human Scarecrow | Crypto Bubble | Glacier Collapse

The Routine Bilking of Soldiers

Fort Campbell, on the Kentucky/Tennessee border, is home to the 101st Airborne Division. “Go out Gate 5 at Fort Campbell and Jenna’s Adult Superstore is right across the street.” So begins Ron Lieber’s tour through…

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