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Posts published in January 2023

New Laws for 2023

Criminal Justice Laws Passed By The Legislature In Sacramento And Approved By Governor Newsom For 2023.  AB 256 -- “The Racial Justice Act For All"  AB 256 provides relief in cases where a final judgment…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Jan. 6, 2023

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My Year In Review 2022

What a year! Once again I was astounded how deep into the past I navigated, this time writing a 17,000 word story about growing up in Indiana, motivated by the 50th reunions taking place in…

It’s Raining Cats & Dogs

What a way to put an exclamation mark on the year’s end! I’m talking about the winter deluge, of course, that left 5.15 inches in its stormy wake following Monday and Tuesday’s almost non-stop rain…

The Mysterious Ren

The search for Ren Oschin began when we posted this item on Mendocino County Today back in April: “Chuck Wilcher relays the sad news that long time coast resident Ren Oschin passed away Tuesday. She…

End of Year Awards, 2022

WOMEN OF THE YEAR, with special grace under hugely unfair criticism: Michelle Hutchins, who lost re-election as County Superintendent of schools to a secret gang of "educators," past and present, who lied about her and…

County Notes: Obnoxious Noise? Mendo Doesn’t Care

Last November a local complaining about unreasonable noise at all hours of the night from an “obnoxious neighbor” near a parcel south of Boonville asked us for some background on “noise abatement” in Mendocino County…

Letters (January 5, 2023)

I have watched Fort Bragg over the past 40 years suffering through the seemingly eternal cycles of new leadership but the same old failures to mitigate the downward economic cycle…

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