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Posts published in April 2023

Mendocino County Today: Monday, April 24, 2023

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Working The Mare Island Nukes

In 1980 a mutual friend put me in touch with Gerry Stone, a Mare Island shipyard worker who had seen some things he thought the public ought to know about. I was then a hustling…

AV Variety Show: Bring it On!

The Anderson Valley Variety Show is always full of surprises. The most surprising act I remember involved a man named Rudy Knoop cooking soy beans on a Coleman stove live onstage. He had an assistant…

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…

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