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Posts published in November 2022

State’s Finances Fall: ‘Worst Since Great Recession’

The California’s Legislative Analyst Office (LAO) just released a report on the outlook for the 2023-24 fiscal year. The 20-page report shivers one’s timbers concluding that “revenue estimates represent the weakest performance the state has…

MTC’S ‘Native Gardens’

I am interested in origins and when we claim them and when we stop, the power of language and place. (Tania; Native Gardens; Act 1, Scene 2) It was the opening night Gala for Native…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022

Weak Front | Jazzfest | Grateful | Wreath Sale | CEO Report | Swimmers | Historical Journal | Bridge Construction | Public Expression | Fooltype | AV Events | New Shoes | River Blvd | Mercuryville | Yesterday's Catch | Bramble Battle | Winterland | Cloverdale Fireworks | Riverside Patriot | Marco Radio | Anamosa Architecture | Garoppolo Fortune | Football/Handegg | Music | 1937 Flood | Cloud Capital | Billionaire Gas | Pretendians | Narrowboating | Cuba Embargo | Tennessee Boys | Chevron Venezuela | Creamed Possom | Ukraine | $Million Legs | Calley/Manson | Guerneville Rendering | Dino Extinction | Old Rye | Neglect Consequence | Summertime

Billy Owens: An ‘Okie’ Family’s Migration

I met Bill right after my wife and I first moved to The Valley fifty years ago. Our meeting place was the Floodgate Store bar along Highway 128 toward the Deep End of Navarro. Moving…

Cannabis Crop Report, 2022

As always there’s both good news and bad news to the story. In the world of weed, the good news is that this year small farmers have harvested some of their best crop ever in…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022

Dry | Seaside Beach | 101 Fatality | Guerneville Gathering | Malcolm Radio | Pump Chi | Food Drive | Ferry | Ed Notes | Heron | Tahja Event | Yesterday's Catch | Need Air | Grande Gathering | Rule Change | Ex Purse | Marco Radio | Flooding | New Car | Bum Scream | Antisemitic Weapon | Joe Hill | Same Symphony | Congressional Sports | Thanksgiving Serenade | Mad TG | Press Freedom | Helping | Ukraine | High Water | Retail Carrion | Splendid Splinter | Sound Sleeper | Disaster Recipe | Dostoevsky | 1915 Flood | Ye Freakout | Who's Drunk | Mad Cow | Hypnotist | Objective Truth | Canelis Logging

Weed’s Black Neighborhood

If you’ve only driven past Weed on Hwy 5, or stopped to take a photo of Mt. Shasta and have a cup of coffee at the Hi-Lo Cafe, you might not have known that the…

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