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Posts published in February 2023

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023

Showers | Mendo 1868 | Estuary Notes | Climbing Rock | Military Equipment | Pet Donald | Native Grasses | Curious Seaweed | Police Misconduct Cases | Blattner Roadsign | Ed Notes | Beautiful Small | Quake Rubble | AV Events | Necessary DUI | Vintage Colombi | DUI Case | Earth Tongue | German Tourist | Yesterday's Catch | Flag Football | Tardigrade Mum | Marco Radio | Big Sur | Breathe | Prince Pauper | Saucy Tales | Corrupt DNC | Accidents Prohibited | Ukraine | Spy Balloon | Robinspotting | U.S. Socialism | Reclaim Attention | Exemplars

Just Like That, No Ford Taurus?

Things you don’t see much of anymore, and other observations: SKATEBOARDS: Gone, down south anyway. I’ve yet to spot even one. ACNE ON TEENS: What…

Jorge Luis Borges: The Vision Of Amber

Being blind and a poet is half way to Homer. If in addition, the blind poet is Argentinian, the path can't be very long. It…

‘Love It Or Leave It’

It still seems to be a popular bumper strip — “America, love it or leave it!” — and it sticks in the craw as well…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023

Wet Ahead | Seascape | AVUSD News | Navarro Bridge | Road Map | ER Bill | Variety Show | Deer | PA Housing | Van Zandts | Fuel Breaks | Mural Talk | Artists' Collective | Clearlake Sunset | FEMA Funds | Windflower Catch | Public Records | Mendo Main | Benefit Concert | Earthworks | Hurst Memories | Yesterday's Catch | Kaep Insurance | Get Ready | Humboldt Honey | Bosa | Marco Radio | Angel Neighbors | Chapter 16 | Brady Day | Aggravated Arson | Perfect Woman | Vineyard Ducks | Russian Athletes | Lightning | Pleiku Letter | Tomato Rainbow | Memphis Bee | Phil's Ex | Going Green | Suspected | Ukraine | Young Shuckers | Lose Lose | Palindromists

Weed BnB

I launched the prototype of a Weed BnB last week and I don't think the first visitors ever stopped smiling or smoking. (I do like…

Victor Navasky, R.I.P.

One fine day in the Winter of 1958, two oddly dressed men appeared in the narrow doorway of my office in the Yale Daily News…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Feb. 3, 2023

Between Rains | Lilies | Corb Flick | Schooners | Accreditation Prep | Thrift Sale | Garden Starts | Sand Balls | Website Error | Kelp Tubes | County Notes | Bragg Block | Disaster Declaration | Raitt Sibs | KZYXing | Lumbering Jackscrews | Beer Festival | Groundhog Morning | Ed Notes | Caspar Mill | Marijuana Haters | Coat Rack | Riding Shotgun | Yesterday's Catch | Democracy Index | Inhumane Treatment | Peekaboo Game | Kelseyville Saffron | More This | Forest Defenders | Leather Dress | Ukraine | Important Issues

New Mendocino County Courthouse On Track

Plans for a new Mendocino County Courthouse cleared a critical hurdle last Friday after winning approval from the state Department of Finance. There are, however,…

Never Schiff

Left out of last week’s piece about Barbara Lee’s run for the US Senate was some background on Rep. Adam Schiff, the “centrist” bore the…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023

Rain Tonight | Handley View | BoonQuiz | FFA Speakers | Water Project | Heart Health | Cavalier Firing | AVV Newsletter | Taco Truck | Burrito Gift | Comet Flyby | Pisole Pickup | Local Contractor | Benefit Dining | Mendo Tourism | Beer Fest | Police Reports | Ed Notes | Shadepost | Eating Crow | Yesterday's Catch | QB1 | Retire Tom | QB3 | Niner Hiatus | Thanks DeMeco | Library Records | Monarchs | Hiring Firefighters | Existential Comic | Warm Blanket | Paycheck Living | Sako Radio | American Nitro | Water Woes | Video Magazine | CA Incompetence | Peckerhead | Debt Ceiling | Huff Honored | Rascal | Wonderful Nazis | Russiagating | Freeway | Media Claims | Potatoes | Ukraine | Soul Glimpse | Empire Flailing | Warplane

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