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Posts published in February 2023

‘For WAR, What’s Another $40 Billion?’

When the editor forwarded the letter from Robert Mailer Anderson that appears on page 2, I thought for a split second that it was a belated apology. More than 25 years ago RMA had slandered…

A True Story From Boonville, 1971

The great hippie political takeover of Mendocino was still a few years away from that summer day in 1971 when we established our raucous brood in Mendocino County's serene summer hills, not far from the…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023

Clearing | Goose | Boylan Undeserving | Spaghetti Dinner | Water Rates | Senior Night | AVUSD News | Heart Health | MCHCD Requests | Inspirational Chief | Ed Notes | Tree House | JDSF Applications | Celebrating Women | Help Pebbles | Elijah Frost | Dandelions | Recovery Centers | Wine Walk | Necessary DUI | Yesterday's Catch | Fish Gone | Bird Breath | Unchecked Bureaucracy | Dying Ideal | Trust Petitions | Puritan Valentines | Corporate Power | Social Security | One Recipient | Hecklers Lose | Mixed Up | BarkHaus | Pelosi Reactions | Spay/Neuter | Intelligently Stupid | Housing Issues | German Balloon | Marco Radio | Vintage Valentines | Superfan | Top Heavy | Foundered | Spruce | Ukraine | Bowing | WWIII | Bolivian | Devastation | Today | Stained Glass

The State Of The City

We cautiously started 2022 hoping for the best and learning from all the challenges of 2021 and 2020. Surviving sometimes competing emergencies, the City fared better than predicted. The community members and City staff have…

Take A Knee

There is an expression in competitive football that all players are familiar with. When a player is injured badly, no matter which team that player is on, you “take a knee.” The teammates and opponents…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Feb. 10, 2023

Cloudy, Chance Rain | Park Play Structures | School Bathrooms Reopened | MacKerricher Beach | CoCo's Proposal | Old Uniform | Mendo Experiences | Photo Show | Burning Bridges | Yesterday's Catch | Abstract Falls | Free Assange | Lake Mendocino | David Chain | Dostoevsky Descendant | Wine Desk | Forgot Lights | Gassing Pigs | The Screamer | Food Aid | Sixties Television | First Book | Pipeline Sabotage | Hersh Story | Never Do That | Ukraine's Cops | Nato Mission

Mendo’s Police Misconduct Controversies 

An emerging pattern of police misconduct involving alleged sexual assaults is dogging Mendocino County prosecutors who remain stubbornly silent in the face of growing public scrutiny. No doubt a string of local police misconduct cases…

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