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Posts published in April 2023

Light The Team

I know it’s early. I get that. But there’s enough of a sample size now to be able to predict that this year’s version of the San Francisco Giants baseball team falls somewhere between promising…

Vietnam: The War That Rocked The World

Watching Steve Talbot’s new documentary, The Movement and the "Madman," reminded me of my own opposition to war, and also that over the past 75-years, US soldiers have gone into battle and died on distant…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, April 27, 2023

Sunny | Joaquin Arrested | Stan Miklose | Sky Fire | Job Offer | Plant Sale | Saving Sweetwater | Ortega Mural | County Carryover | Beer Fest | Repeal Ordinance | Frog Woman | Price Comparisons | Latino Scholarship | 100 Women | Craft Fair | Boonville Menace | Hedgehog Closed | Old Schoolhouse | Yesterday's Catch | Warriors Win | Math Puzzle | Physical Contact | Carriage Ride | Coachella Experience | Going West | San Quentin | Ice Cream Social | Biden Again | Not War | Sky News | Much Violence | Ukraine | Firing Carlson | News Coverage | Ellsberg Week | Harry Belafonte

County Notes: Look In The Mirror, Supervisor McGourty

(Annotating Supervisor Glenn McGourty’s Supervisor’s Report for next week’s board meeting…) “Budget Ad Hoc Committee: Supervisor Williams and I serve on the Budget Ad Hoc committee and attended all the department meetings to discuss proposed…

Spring Turning

After several weeks of hesitation, it appears spring has finally sprung in Northern California. The seemingly endless rains of this winter have finally ended and the temperatures are warming, though frost remains a possibility. In…

Letters (April 27, 2023)

There's a little house for sale in Boonville, asking price $650,000. No one in AV makes enough to buy it.…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Warming | Headlands | Financial Reporting | Quizless | Swingless | Forest Fundraiser | Garden Tour | Rummage Sale | Poetry Celebration | Didion SF | Ed Notes | Winter Thaw | Chant Prep | Covelo | Island Encounter | Yesterday's Catch | Stupider | Congressional Spine | Owner Blameless | Not Surprised | Wage Battle | New Joe's | New Crucifix | Dick Carlson | No Prostitutes | Drugs | Junius Groves | US Elections | Psych Wifi | Disinfo Firehose | Self Serve | Liar Liar | Women Trouble | Digital Colonization | Ukraine | Leeds/Liverpool

Off the Record (April 26, 2023)

LINDA BAILEY COMMENTS: Re: County Budget: Watching Williams and McGourty at last week’s BOS discussion of financial and budgetary matters brought to mind Charles Fraizer’s line in Cold Mountain: “They call this war a cloud…

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