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Posts published in May 2023

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Northerlies | Pelicans | AVUSD News | Willits Arts | SOD Blitz | Boomers Property | County Employees | Point Arena | Ed Notes | Westport Fog | New Pediatrician | Yesterday's Catch | Navarro 1949 | CA Budget | Median Poppies | Warriors GM | Cursive | Trashing Florida | Cartwheel | Ernie Kovacs | Twits | Cut 20% | Love Bus | War Invisible | Your Move | Ukraine | Found Cheeseburger

Off the Record (May 31, 2023)

BURBLE GUSH (an email note from Leadership Mendocino Director Holly Madrigal to Laytonville Leadership Mendocino host Jayma Spence after Leadership Mendocino visited Laytonville on May 12): “Friday was SO great, Jayma. Oh my goodness you…

Valley People (May 31, 2023)

JEFF BURROUGHS once told me that Frank James wasn’t the only famous figure to stop at the Boonville Hotel. Jack and Charmian London rode through The Valley in the summer of 1910, leisurely making their…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Interior Thunder | Boonville Sky | Memorial Service | American Flag | Shanley Interview | Pornography Charges | Sparrow | Pebbles Update | Batter Up | Sharon Amos | Napoleon Bever | Yesterday's Catch | Two Sergeants | No Swimming | Foreign Policy | Worst Coffee | Anxious Time | Jack Swilling | Succession Finale | Siamese Twins | Ukraine | Pi Fight | Helping Putin | Butterfly Plants | Blonde Joke | Water Glass | Another Brick | Negative IQ | Dumb Ideology | Mendocino Bay

New Kid On Block Scolds His Neighbors

I’ve been in North Carolina for a year and figured when I learned how to spell “Chattanooga” I’d be enough of an expert to lecture locals on how to improve things for me. Being from…

By Any Means Necessary

I was a delegate representing San Francisco’s Noe Valley to the 1968 founding convention of the Peace and Freedom Party. I lived with my young family at 24th and Dolores in an apartment that cost…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, May 29, 2023

Mountain Thunder | Willits Sky | Ed Notes | Huberman Memorial | B-Word Market | Bony Saludes | Gone Native | Inhumane Conditions | Yesterday's Catch | Tax Fix | Willits Hills | Small World | Larraburu Bakery | Mesmerizer | Get Taibbi | Balloon Fear | Wild People | Christiane Schmidtmer | Space Suit | Propaganda Matrix | Wisenheimer Librarian | Target Boycott | Jet Parts | Ukraine | Tyrant's Cloak | Pocahontas Story | Spring Night | Frisco 1960

Speech For Kamala

Life is too short to ever read a single column inch of Thomas Friedman. But the Times columnist was cited in a letter last week by a lady who liked his suggestion that Kamala Harris…

Eurovisionaries

The Eurovision Song Contest has long burst the geographically borders seemingly staked out by its name. Yet the international spectacle hardly makes a blip on America’s collective consciousness or its screens. Other countries even farther…

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