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Posts published in March 2023

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Showers | Houndstongue | Spring Sprang | Daffodils | Turkey Rail | Students Recognized | Casino Closure | Ed Notes | Welcoming Committee | Tsunami Test | Caspar Mill | Unity Club | Culinary Associate | Variety Show | Signs/Pennant | Thousand Calls | Yesterday's Catch | School Strike | Trump Toast | Math Problem | Petaluma Hatemonger | Giant Camera | Pizza Amleto | Expensive States | Divided/Conquered | Big Joe | Retirement Age | Mister Softee | Edna Beasley | Homecoming | For Posterity | Girl Run | Ukraine | Got This | Get Putin | Protesting War | Family Portrait | War Criminals | Tingling Spring

Slice Of The City

It’s early on Sunday morning at the Brushless Car Wash and I’m surprised at how many people are already here sitting in those horrible plastic chairs all facing the same way (backs to the sun).…

Remembering Wayne Shorter

This first musical nickname tagged him to the city of his birth: the Newark Flash. To a club called Lloyd’s Manor in Wayne Shorter’s hometown came Sonny Stitt in 1951. Stitt hailed from across the…

By Any Other Name

The other day at a red light, a Cadillac Escalade SUV sat in front of me, looming over the Toyota Cressida to its right. Suddenly it occurred to me that I had no idea what…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, March 20, 2023

Clearing | Wandering Goats | Childcare Job | Healing Catfish | Space Debris | O'Connell Memorial | Vernal Equinox | Mendo Foilies | MacKerricher Beach | Grants | Curious Closet | Kramer Howl | MAC Benefit | Spiritual Center | Westport Beach | Remembering Ricky | Variety Show | Rock Stop | Crow Clarifications | Northern Nights | Table Cat | Cold Steel | CYO Champs | Bart Book | Outhouses | Yesterday's Catch | Usual Post | President Inmate | Chron Fabrication | Izzy Einstein | Election Hostages | Hendrix SF | Pinky Date | Painters | Absent Father | BBQ | Cellar | Jim Bridger | Ukraine | Radioactive

Crawling With Buckeyes

I arrived in Ukiah a long time ago, back when stegosauruses roamed Laytonville, the Dead Sea was merely ill, and no one in Mendocino County had ever heard of marijuana. You might think these were…

Raphael Mechoulam

The Israeli chemist Raphael Mechoulam, who died last week at 92, should have gotten the Nobel Prize for his role in figuring out how marijuana exerts its effects within the body. ("Elucidating the endocannabinoid system,"…

Snow

Pale-jointed knuckles grip the wheel. Squinting, trying to detect shapes of any kind beyond your windscreen. This rates as a full-bore white-out. Zero visibility. Now you’ve lost sight of those blurred red tail-lights that were…

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