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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

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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