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Posts published in January 2023

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…

UN, WHO Call for Greater COVID Transparency from China

Both the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are calling on the Chinese government to be more transparent regarding the outbreak of COVID following Beijing’s abrupt halt of its Zero-COVID policy last…

Off the Record (January 4, 2023)

HAVE THE FASCISTS begun to make their move? Tacoma, Washington, lost electricity Christmas morning when three power substations in the area were “attacked” by unknown suspects. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said that responding officers…

Valley People (January 4, 2023)

SITTING HERE on the left bank of an atmospheric river that just ran by me as the tv weathercasters hype three more rivers on the way. The weather people are very excited, speaking into their…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023

Slight Respite | Lake Mendocino | Water Projects | Grange Hall | Sunday Breakfast | Rohnerville | AV Village | 1895 Eureka | Antisocial Media | Acorns | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Garberville Crisis | Grumpy Doctor | Garberville Images | Media Control | Todd's House | Woody's Rulins | Specialist Clogg | Tree Leaves | Football Stopped | Howlin' Wolf | Jan.6 Committee | Cheyenne Warriors | Hurry Not | Bigoted Bureaucrats | Eve Tripping | Ruling Class | Love Blurs | Musical Chairs | Chimney Sweep | Ukraine | Sea Murmur | War's Toll | Moored Barges

A Night To Remember

I met Eric Clapton while sailing on San Francisco Bay in the late summer of 1967. His band, Cream, was playing at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, their first time on the West coast.…

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