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Posts published in December 2022

PD on Cannabis Snafu: Tsk tsk tsk

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat editorial Dec.18 expressed dismay about the state of the Cannabis industry in California. The PD exonerated the politicians and blamed the proponents and funders of Proposition 64 — the “Adult…

Charles Albert’s Christmas Carol

In the village of Petrykivka in Ukraine, Maria Yanenko worried that bombs would obliterate her home and destroy her traditional folk art practised by women in her family for decades. She gathered 40 paintings of…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Dec. 23, 2022

Warming | Shelter Dogs | Sandbar Back | Palace Hope | Navarro Mill | Blaylock Settles | Hendry Accused | Human Remains | Quake Apps | Ed Notes | Upside-Down Man | Youth Art | Sawyers Bar | Dem-abration | Yesterday's Catch | KMUD Censorship | Football Hero | Ghost Gunner | Christmas Goose | Cheap Wine | Nob Hill | Congressman Pander | Lighthouse | Landmined | Trump Cards | Zelensky Garb | Waiting Room | Ukraine | Boar | War Machine | Goodtime Charlie

Your Felon For My Felon

Openly gay, black, 32-year-old basketball player American Brittney Griner walked away free as a bird from a Russian gulag seven hours east of Moscow in a prison swap with Russian Viktor Bout (pronounced “boot”) who,…

Ride To Eat

A hundred miles before breakfast.  It was founding Rider staffer Dick Blom’s number one road rule in the old days back in the Seventies before many of you were born. His number two rule was…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022

Light Rain | MTA Routes | Help Margriet | Children's Concert | Log Train | Finnish Mural | Outgoing Hutchins | Historical Society | Next Quiz | Borges-Gurr Case | Undergrowth | New Charges | Huntress | Quake Awake | Mascot Contest | Support Farmers | Cornet Band | Dr Swain | Axial Tilt | Winter Cheer | Finest Redwoods | Triple Junction | Drydocked | Nonsensical | Log Truck | Wasserman Note | Yesterday's Catch | Franco Harris | Tree Down | Music Teacher | Marshfellows | Pay Transparency | Liberace Xmas | Alex < Tucker | Aurora | Loneliness | Israel | Stalin's Birthday | Ukraine | Winter Night

Off the Record (December 22, 2022)

DEPARTMENT OF UNINTENTIONAL HILARITY, This Headline: “Eyewitness Reported An X-Shaped UFO Flying Over Redwood Valley In Early October.” “Eyewitness,” singular? How about the nabes, did they see it? Fact: There are high school kids all…

County Budget Balancing Not Quite Done

At their most recent meetings (December 6th and 13th), the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors has been attempting to belatedly deliver a balanced budget for the new fiscal year that began on July 1. As…

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