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Posts published in January 2023

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023

Cooling | Bike Sale | Hendy Volunteer | Root Cluster | AVUSD Update | Creekside Quagmire | New Hydrant | Missing Person | Adventist Rumor | Grammarians | Arson Trial | Help Wanted | Mendo Atlas | Paddlewheel | Hospice Services | Driftwood | Ukiah Projects | Ferry | Forest Closures | Music Festival | Yesterday's Catch | Malady Cure | Chinatown | Marco Radio | Social Networking | Tyre Nichols | Lunatic Ideology | Firework Dancers | Latino Civility | Kittle Loose | 3rd Graders | Pelosi Video | Miner's Son | Gangsta Rap | Mountain Dew | Our Revolution | Union Hotel | Media Fraud | Incline | Healthcare Cost | Fentanyl | Wealth Tax | Ukraine | Incline Riders | Pretend-O-Rama | Class 1894 | Criticizing Warmongers | Nouveau Doors

Accident Report

On Dec 29, 2022, Bill Allen and I were driving home from our Christmas gathering with my family in southern California. We were on a straight stretch of Highway 128, only half an hour from…

In Dreams Begin Illumination

Ours might be the first civilization that pays no heed to our dreams, those semi-silent, highly personal, psychologically rich nightly weavings that are both fresh and repetitive, manufactured purely by us and for us, then…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Jan. 27, 2023

Cooling | Seastacks | Creekside Exodus | MEC Event | Hendy Open | Cecelia Pardini | Noyo 1866 | Free Concert | Abandoned Mill | Ed Notes | Wendling 1911 | Not Endorsed | Silver Poets | Jeff Vestal | Seaweed Exhibit | Eureka Shop | Willits Art | Chinese Dinner | Charging Sites | Yesterday's Catch | Bambi Dunagan | Attach Not | Miracle Ministry | Movie Guide | Reese Bars | Chinese Labor | Golden Gate | Firecracker Biden | Despair | Ukraine | Amber Vision | Astronomical Clock

The Laytonville Dump; the Rest of the Story

As much as I hate to admit it, I’ve been involved with the Laytonville landfill since the early 90s when the debate first raged about closing the damn thing. Back then Jim Eddie, of Potter…

The Dinner

My dad, Louis Wasserman, was for many years a professor of Political Science and Philosophy a San Francisco State College, now University. Among his many activities was as the head of the College Lecture Series,…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023

Warm | Hieroglyphics | Roysum Emergency | Arcata Gang | Creekside Fiasco | Big Lagoon | Ed Notes | Dangerous Women | County Notes | Kids 1904 | Boonquiz | HumBros | Weekend Concerts | Yesterday's Catch | Citizen Action | Lookalikes | Safeway Bound | FBI Magic | British Redwood | Rookie Phenom | Hopeful Healing | Checkpoint Charlie | Paxlovid Mouth | Abridged Classics | Transtrum | Bright Light | Downward Spiral | Weaponized SUV | Three Hares | Tax Crisis | Burial Platform | Lenin Speech | Post Musk | Wealth Tax | Forest Spirit | Ukraine | Sunny Doorway

County Notes: Flying Blind

If you thought that Mendo’s budget picture would have improved or at least been clarified over the last few weeks since the last pessimistic budget presentation, you’d be mostly wrong. The estimated deficit remains at…

Letters (January 26, 2023)

It's way past time, to open up the doors of the Ukiah Dog Shelter again, to the community, to the people it belongs to. Closed, by appt only? So dogs can get plenty of sleep?…

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