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Posts published in November 2022

Off the Record (November 9, 2022)

WE HAVEN'T HEARD from the Pelosi perp yet — the alleged perp — but I have to say the speculation about what truly happened is…

Valley People (November 9, 2022)

ANDERSON VALLEY TAXPAYERS were shocked by their November property tax bill this week when they saw that the “Anderson Valley Unified Bond” tax add-on was…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022

Cold Rain | Coast | Skatepark Meeting | Property Tax | Blue Lake | 101 Fatality | Portly Punk | AV Village | F&G Meeting | Sunset | Soccer Match | Pack Train | Thistling | Dog Damn | Youth Art | Boaters | Grange Events | Supe Holiday | Albion Loggers | Yes P | Ukiah Morning | Ed Notes | Train Depot | Eclipsed | Blood Moon | Pot Portal | Little Rivens | PG&E Webinar | Pea Pickers | Green Light | LakeCo Centennial | Dear Defendant | Middletown 1890 | Feathers Prelim | Next! | Tribe Safety | Tuck In | Eel Friends | Next Vacation | Covered CA | Yesterday's Catch | Ego Musk | Vanity Project | We Lost | Beautiful Moment | Always Classy | Lying Wrong | Real Steal | Wake Me | Unhappy Voter | Suffragettes | Early Returns | Quinine Whiskey | Civil War | Breadhead | Lotto Dream | Castling | Ukraine | Earth

Another Day At People’s Park

To the eye of a tourist from another city, the plot of land in Berkeley, California that’s known as People’s Park might look like a…

iPhone Upgrade

Something amazing happened when I went to get a new phone last year: I didn’t buy one, because instead of pressuring me to spend a…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Nov. 7, 2022

Cold Wet | Purse Found | Car Vandalism | Lake Resort | 128 Fatality | Magic Milk | Possible Meteorite | Railroad Coming | Equity Issue | Future Man | Ordinance Stuck | Clear Lake | Orgasm Inc | Ray's Resort | Yesterday's Catch | Record Jackpot | Gas Price | Salty Ham | Self-Respect | Phony Baloney | Paparazzo Portofino | 10th Commandment | Sick Notice | SF Encampments | Ukraine Poster | Hawk Squad | Bonnie & Clyde | Dem Dilemma | Forgotten Past | Pandora Pubs | World End | Fact Resistance | Yogi Sailing

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…

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…

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…

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…

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