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Posts published in December 2022

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…

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…

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…

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…

Letters (December 22, 2022)

What I learned from the reporting of last Wednesday’s Ukiah city council meeting is that councilmember/mayor Jim Brown is a class act, even as he leaves his office…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022

Cloudy | Young Petrolians | King Tides | Russ Bank | Local Emergency | Collapsed | Quake Comments | Kitchen Mess | Alerts Off | Free Trees | Farm Life | 1906 Ferndale | Shellfish Book | Amaryllis | Offended | Ed Notes | Piment d'Ville | Developer Fees | Old Eureka | Kindle Warning | Yesterday's Catch | Growing Food | Rustler Shoes | The Knower | Under Construction | Death Wish | Wrestlers | Wildfire Season | Water Test | Insecure Men | Birdman | Clarkson's Dream | Mind Gap | Bottle Problem | Musk Poll | Russia-Gating | Chemical Rearmament | Ukraine | Sinclair Broadcasting | Ceaseless Wars | Video Magazine

County Notes: A Colossal Waste Of Dollars

Last Tuesday, Supervisor Dan Gjerde complained about the allocation of $2.6 million of PG&E settlement money to an “elusive” Joint Powers Authority (JPA) for ambulance…

Wave Energy On The Coast?

The biggest effort underway for wave energy is PacWave South, now completing construction off Oregon. The project features competing wave energy devices all designed to…

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