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Posts published in November 2022

Scripture & Strategy

Reputable cannabis clinicians and righteous activists want the Medical Board of California to close down the “recommendation mills” that provide 18, 19, and 20-year-olds with access to dispensaries where they can buy megadoses of THC.…

Meditations On The Dodge Dart

For a period of 32 years, from 1988 to 2020, I owned a grand total of two automobiles. Both were Dodge Darts that had rolled off the Chrysler assembly line in the early 1970s. The…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022

Cold Rain | Golden Ratio | Longest Day | Native Month | Yesterday's Rainfall | Pet Hansel | AVUSD Updates | Boonville Skatepark | Symphony Concerts | Logging | Watershed Lab | Casa Verde | Ed Notes | Soft Tacos | Local Vets | County Openings | Libraries Survey | Scott Dam | Mushroom Season | Massini Failed | Yesterday's Catch | Marco Radio | Milk Truck | Cannabis Crop | Health Hazard | Batshit Party | Old McDonald's | Constitutional Sheriffs | Punk Accountants | Robert Morris | Hiking Buddy | Bifurcated World | Ukiah Farmers | Being Human | Many Hammers | Ukraine | Folly

Willie & Me, 1972-2018

I first met Willis Tucker in the early spring of 1972. I had moved to Anderson Valley the year before, bought part of the old Ingram Ranch in Navarro with the intent to plant wine…

Promises, Promises

As a simple matter of principle, and a tiny dash of “Screw you!’ added for flavoring, citizens should vote against anything having to do with tax increases or tax extensions. Otherwise, how stupid will Mendocino…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022

Rain | Cat | Caspar Vandalism | Print Shop | College Offerings | Robert's Landing | Handyman Help | Tree Legs | Mendo F&G | Tip Top | County Notes | Fishmobile | Pomo Weavers | Rape Convictions | 1881 Boat | Cannabis Control | Flour Mill | Wussy Valley | Hell's Cafeteria | Wes Questions | Spawn | AVHS Thanks | Oak Cove | Train Killer | Yesterday's Catch | Cheap Weed | Old Courthouse | Marco Radio | Wall Phone | Assfire | Ray Guy | Undercover Cop | Christian Lion | NBC Report | George Booth | StrucKout | Getting Up | Israel Gone | Graham Concert | Oster's Plea | Found Weapons | Fundamentally Evil | Women Republicans | Unelectable Crop | Welsh Miners

Anderson Valley Tasting Rooms: The Early Years

A couple of months ago, I wrote about my early encounters with winery tasting room in Sonoma County. Back then, I promised to write about the early days of tasting rooms in Anderson Valley. While…

Remembering Mike Davis

Mike Davis’s work reached my generation of radical readers in the 1990s, in the context of the fall of the USSR, the rise of Clintonist third-way triage, the EZLN in Chiapas, and the interpenetration of…

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