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Posts published in January 2023

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Jan. 9, 2023

Shower Break | Ukiah Valley | Septic Failure | Valentine Raffle | Rainfall | Flooded Highways | Wind Gusts | Horse Travel | PA Emergency | Powerlines | Trash Issues | Call Angelo | Car Travel | Crab Feed | Caspar Rainbow | Hospice Ukiah | Old Orick | Storm Fear | Yesterday's Catch | Huck Storm | Eel Bridge | Niners Win | Arrow Tree | My Christmas | Ferndale Stage | 1973 Contest | Full Moons | Busybody Blues | Invisible Man | New Doctors | Jupiter Cigars | Junk Politics | Coal Miner | US Empire | Religious Fervor | Icon Alter | Military Spending | Ukraine | Burl Grain | Montana Bound | Panda Keepers

Israel’s New ‘Government Of Darkness’

If a prize was to be awarded for the most important yet least reported story in the media in 2022, it might well go to the news outlets that failed to report on the escalating…

Bob McKee, Another View

Bob McKee gave me my first job when I arrived in Humboldt County in 1969, a poor hippie with a broken down car and a few bucks in my pocket. In the early 70s I…

San Franciscana

Oh, it's a city, all right. Idle statistic: San Francisco has some 800 buildings over seven stories tall, more than the rest of California combined. Places like San Jose, Sacramento and possibly Cucamonga have a…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023

Stormy | Hendy Closed | Rainfall | Road Closures | Dark Sky | Navarro Watch | Crab Feed | Storms Past | Lake Mendocino | Library Event | Edgar Castillo | Editor Covid | AV Events | Climate Extremes | Bridge | Brooktrails | Guilty Verdict | Pier Swell | Jail Expansion | Pet Baloo | Blue Lake | Unity Club | Gulls | Dance Class | Photo Outing | Shields Report | Yesterday's Catch | Heroic Efforts | Video Magazine | Getting Paid | Surcharge | Occasional Obese | Outlandish | Schiff Banishment | Coal City | Doesn't Know | Hardwick Biography | Moon Man | Ukraine | Absurd Life | Rail Bikes | Keating Response | Store Credit | Schwartzing | Lake Girls | Bird Flu | Three Pedals | Marco Radio | Weather Man

The Hand Basket Will Have To Wait

2022 was filled with a lot of head shaking and eye rolling. Many people shared views of gloom and doom based on the current state of “Things.”  Well there have been some real doozy happenings…

The Media: Flacks for History

Washington, D.C. (August 1, 1974) — I sat for half an hour in the Judiciary Committee room last week and enjoyed a splendid view of the trousered area of a free-lance photographer. He was straining…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023

Wet Wind | Pudding Beach | Storm Reminders | Rain Outlook | AV Groups | Navarro Beach | Chamber Music | Flood Crossing | Spending Limits | Juice Bar | SNWMF 2023 | Scurrilous Accusations | Humboldt Highway | Totten Popped | Oschin Trust | Atmospheric Rivers | Jesus Centerfold | Cleek Nest | Facecut Portrait | Succession II | Fletcher Inn | Juried Exhibit | Yesterday's Catch | Minus Missiles | Ferndale Snow | Giusti Stabbed | Journalist Keyboard | Marco Radio | Harness Racing | Corporate Journalism | Oh Brotherhood | Eve Banned | CA Legislature | McEwan's Ale | Stove Asthma | Ticket Prices | Counterrevolution | Menadue | Propaganda | Can't Explain | Nominate Me | Knight Challenge | Ukraine | Ripples

Cirrhosis Stout, For Those Who Think Young

Following half a century of drinking top quality American beers I’ve lost my bearings and gone rogue. It’s akin to a mid-life crisis where a guy sees the bald spot and the paunch and realizes…

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