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Posts published in March 2023

Death By Bureaucracy

Mendocino County’s marijuana industry was started by curious hippies, all with a tinge of the outlaw, and grew and flourished through the years despite the real possibility of arrest, imprisonment, ripoffs, crop failures and more. …

Ancient Totems

For thousands of years, Mendocino County history was memorialized in spirit rocks like the giant granite message board at the headwaters of Feliz Creek, and another near Cloverdale on the Russian River. All are federally…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, March 3, 2023

Sunny Today | 253 Snow | Laytonville Shelter | Ukiah Billboard | Emergency Declaration | Cabin Rental | Westport Beach | Marbut Us | Skunk Status | Mendocino Bushmallow | County Disconnects | Slash Burner | Not CSD | Bell Springs | Planned Subdivision | Video Magazine | Skatepark Meeting | Feeding Hummingbirds | Youth Pitfall | Tahja Book | Yesterday's Catch | Mask Bias | Fact Check | Where Next | Fat Future | Dilbert Fiasco | Inclusiveness | Black History | Reading Novels | Telling History | Rigsby Station | Jail Hersh | Washing Machines | Digital Blacklisting | Zapata | Nuclear Train | Arctic Oil | Ellsberg Notice | Watermelon Eaters

Outside Media Gets Mendo Weed Woes Wrong (As Usual)

Be sure and check out the SF Chron’s story on weed woes here in Mendoland (“California County’s Cannabis Industry On The Brink Of Irreversible Failure”). It’s another in a long string of articles by outside…

Snow Days

There is a learning curve with snow. I discovered this fact recently when I awakened in my Philo cabin up on the ridge to a sparkling white winter wonderland dusted with snow. I got up…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, March 2, 2023

Frosty | Ice Crystals | Marbut Approach | Live Music | Boonquiz | Death Dealers | Storm Cloud | Remembering Mike | Whale Festival | Ed Notes | Yellow Roses | Pot Farce | Wolk Caught | AV Village | Malia | Caltrans Plans | Real Sarahs | New OB-GYN | Yesterday's Catch | Rossmoor News | Excluded | Covidia | Manzanita | Food Stamps | Image Intrigue | Mendocino | Hollywood Hills | Tax Rich | Kindness | Protest Songs | Disreputable Company | Ukiah Drifter | 15¢ Burger | Beautiful Place | Kerouac Street | Death Trip | Bikers Invade | Unjust War | Texas Ladies | Ukraine | Other Bastard | Permeated Pretense | Our Fear

No Power

This is a pause from real life which includes the following things I’m cut off from on Day Three Snow Event: Music, internet, and TV.  It’s quiet without the music which usually plays most of…

Long Budget Reporting Delays? Supes Yawn.

Item 4h on next Tuesday’s Supervisors agenda has the seemingly routine and innocuous title: “Discussion and Possible Action Including Review of Board of Supervisor's Directives Requiring Follow Through from County Staff and/or Other Agencies…”  We’ve…

Letters (March 2, 2023)

It was a fine day on Monday and my dog friend and I went for a walk down the Ukiah Rail Trail. We won’t be doing that again. Ever.…

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