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Posts published in April 2023

Biloxi Days: The Great Parachute Scam

Late one afternoon I got a call from a fellow squadron commander over on the training side of Keesler Air Force Base when I was stationed there in 1970. This was unusual. Our aircraft maintenance…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, April 23, 2023

Cooling | Oystercatchers | Doug Browe | Field Trip | County Notes | Dog Adoption | Earth Laughing | Prom Wear | Cow Mountain | Medical Transit | Yesterday's Catch | Need Madbum | Hairpin Quiz | Water West | Unbelievable | Personal Vendetta | Surf Fishing | Marco Radio | Dissing Empathy | Sharing Food | Biden/Applewhite | Pissing Off | Debate Spectrum | DeSantis/Dracula | Unlikable Ron | Sacrifice | Corporate University | Frank O'Hara | My Sad Self | Which One

Notes From A Paradise Lost

Where there were once hop fields, apple orchards and sheep in the Anderson Valley, by the middle 1970s there was marijuana and an outlaw population of people who weren’t really outlaws, but middleclass back-to-the-landers forced…

Time To Regulate The Deregulators

Note: I read with some interest the posts regarding the CPUC and PG&E in Friday’s online AVA. Your post was spot-on pin-pointing the bi-partisan collaboration between Republicans and Democrats in fostering the collapse of electrical…

Pasta & Me

No, this is not an article about Italian cooking, although some historians believe pasta originated in China in the BC Era, this is about me and my dog Pasta, my travelling companion for hundreds of…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, April 22, 2023

Warm | Wildflower Prep | Tammy Irvin | Ukiah Hospice | Carrillo Fundraiser | CSD Meeting | RubySky Day | Boonville Income | Harlequin Flower | AVUSD News | Riley Search | Weed Fee | Fringe Festival | County Notes | Making Firewood | Planning Agenda | Sanctuary/Schat's | Ed Notes | Women's Soccer | Oblivious Tesla | Bragg Museum | Skunk Horn | Scholarship Fundraiser | Inland Water | Boontling Classic | SNWMF 2023 | Housing Voucher | Yesterday's Catch | Coastal Protection | Berkeley Skyline | Marco Radio | Miami 45 | Exercise Groups | Wedding Rock | Vegas Bound | Echium Candicans | Censoring Hersh | Ali/Marciano | Debt Chicken | William Whipple | RFK Junior | Mystery Pills | Real Disinfo | Surveillance Team | Media Blackout | Primo Carnera | Russian Diesel | Hunting Trip

Please Don’t Kill Me

Last year 4,007,908 teachers toiled in our nation’s public schools, 3,197,000 of them in California. The last few years have been rough on students nationwide, what with pandemic lockdowns, distant learning, social-media saturation, and general…

The Shadow Box (Part 1)

Remember that first television appearing in your house in the early 50s?  That tiny screen in the middle of a big clunky cube? Didn’t it look like some sort of oracle in pre-prophecy slumber, an…

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