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Posts published in October 2022

Valley People (Oct. 5, 2022)

ON MONDAY AFTERNOON (September 26) AV Fire Department units responded to a structure fire on Josephina's Road, Philo (off Ray’s Road), and found an old unused RV style camper on fire. The camper was fully…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022

High Pressure | Bragg Bluffs | Early Dismissal | Carrot Plane | Pot Agenda | Mandolin Manny | Help Wanted | Dog Snatchers | Polesitter | Ed Notes | Cactus Flower | Youth Jailbreak | Bonna & Meg | Dem Club | Yesterday's Catch | Suspicious Opposition | Fair Patrol | No 26/27 | Mark Twain | Groucho | Accept Thyself | Seven Ages | NY Firefight | Songbird Migration | Tall Trestle | Great Beatdown | Piggybacking | Human Composting | WMI | Bourdain Bio | Sheared Date | Ukraine | Gloves On | In Chuhuiv | Play Dead | Pipeline Destruction | Trump & Crumb

The Queen Is Rotting in Her Grave

While vacationing on the East Coast in September, I watched TV and couldn't help noticing that Queen Elizabeth died, her scoundrel son, Charles, was the king and that there had been a changing of the…

Our Founding Realtor

We celebrated President’s Day in February, so it seemed like a good time to look beneath the blizzard of conventional admiration for George Washington, the nation’s founding realtor.  America’s founders were eloquent in their speeches…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Oct. 3, 2022

Warming | Ian Damage | Dissolve MCHD | Albion Pier | Grange Pancakes | Wendling Logged | AV Events | Vined Twig | Cannabis Recommendations | Camp 15 | Bumblebee Plight | Lumber Carts | Macdonald Book | Yesterday's Catch | Hiking London | Small Parade | Marco Radio | Sinker Machine | Niner Tickets | Albion Mill | Women Prostitutes | God Child | Israel Discussion | Supremes 1965 | Ukraine | Supremes 2022 | Putin Medea | Libra

A Life In The Performing Arts: Paulette Arnold

A half century ago Duke University graduate Paulette Arnold arrived in Ukiah, one of the ‘back to landers’ who would transform the cultural landscape of Mendocino County. For the newcomers, the 1970s were liberating: a…

Against The Orthodoxies

It is not only a “case,” but a man and a book. Salman Rushdie has suffered unconscionably as a human being. In hiding for four years, he has lost his personal life and all personal…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022

Onshore Breeze | Poison Oak | Navarro Drowning | Conners | Huckleberries | Ag Teachers | Native Plants | Deer Huntress | Ukiah Matters | Pet Phoebe | Social Services | Borgnas | Homestead Wanted | Coin-Op Typewriter | Harassment Case | Ed Notes | Hopland Beauties | Tessgate | Louisa Knox | Undergrounding Bill | Beacon Memories | Yesterday's Catch | Dr Strangelove | TV Guide | Humboldt Rising | Lunchtime | Less Meat | New Albion | Home Prices | Replace Lawn | Car Culture | Gym Class | Fast Driving | Try Water | Lula Returns | Tooth Extractor | Ukraine | Big Fish | Mob Mentality | Individual | Peace Obstacle | Confucian Dream

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