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Posts published in April 2023

Quick Covid Quiz 2023

True or False: 1. Covid is still killing hundreds of Americans every day, and countless more elsewhere, as in, it’s not “over,” far from it, sorry.  2. Covid is still spreading locally with outbreaks in/from…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, April 21, 2023

Sunny | Wildflower Show | Dandelion | Help Garth | Poppies | Sales Tax | Dot Signing | Mental Hospitals | Killer Lawns | Farming Challenges | AV Brewfest | Must Sell | Women Strong | Street Value | CAMP History | Book Chat | 420 Skunk | Stolen Sisters | Boontling Classic | Meyer v Skunk | New Doctor | Artists Alley | AV Stories | Headliner Norfleet | Buck Clark | Yesterday's Catch | Cancer Cure | Favorite Photo | Missed Diagnosis | Hunger | Warriors Win | African Cherokees | Boxing Demo | Cannabis Edibles | Facebook Wall | Dem HUAC | Current Events

Wild Salmon, Can You Return To Us?

I grew up in California in a salmon fishing port. My father was a commercial, salmon fisherman, and I remember as a child that on days when the salmon were running, salmon on the fish…

For Whom The Book Tolls

My reputation as a brooding intellectual blossomed in junior high then flowered in high school.  It was a period in my life when I hauled around thick books on serious topics by profound authors for…

Diabolical

Is Vladimir Putin a freedom-hating madman bent on conquest regardless of the human cost? Why did he invade Ukraine? The incontrovertible fact is that Putin's action came in response to prior US actions. Without those…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, April 20, 2023

Warming | Cold March | Meyer Prevails | Joaquin Wanted | Not Right | Smith Ranch | Spring Turning | Park Sundays | Boonville Peppers | EPIC Weed | Sarahs Willits | Disco Ranch | Low Gap | Braxton Bragg | Film Grant | Yesterday's Catch | COPD Diagnosis | Fire Retardant | Take Stairs | Hoffman Encounters | Timely Ballad | Spooner Retires | Mall Hush | Tick | Abysmal Athletics | Draymond Drama | Loaded Bridge | Overdose Deaths | Crumb 17 | Unzipped | Assisted Living | Ukraine | Cow Poet | China Hawks | Nostalgia

County Notes: Get Cubbison, Again

Last Tuesday’s semi-formal Budget Update devolved into another testy Get Cubbison exercise. It got so bad that Supervisor Ted Williams tossed out a motion for a Vote of No Confidence in the Auditor-Controller-Tax Collector. Williams…

Fort Bragg Shooter Hoax Call Update

In an interview with Councilmember Lindy Peters, posted on Mendocino Coast Media, Fort Bragg Police Chief Neil Cervenka provided new details about what happened during the hoax call incident on Monday, April 3, directed at…

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