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Posts published in June 2023

Bonnie & Clyde, Redux

I suppose it was inevitable though it hadn’t happened to me even once in 72 years of life that included living, working, studying, or visiting 27 U.S. states and 13 countries. Somebody ripped off my…

Strange Days At Junior High Music Class

The original “West Side Story” was on TV Sunday night, I hadn’t watched it in decades, and as often happens, the landmark musical film triggered an ancient flashback… At Lincoln Junior High in the bucolic…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, June 2, 2023

Partly Sunny | Wildflower Walk | Barn Sale | Free Boat | Proposed Budget | Watertower Wonderland | Candidate Cline | Bragg Fridays | Art Walk | Lake Mendocino | TR Factor | Ed Notes | First Commencement | Korte Book | Yesterday's Catch | Reading Kids | 235 MPH | Far Rockaway | Ukiah Mural | Mobley Desk | Further Bus | Be-In 1967 | Bettie Page | Fun Losing | Nanny Twitter | Ukraine | Westport Gull

The “Woke” Crowd Needs To Go Back To Sleep

This past Tuesday, May 23, the Board of Supervisors unanimously ok’d a “streamlined” Weed Ordinance intended to break the logjam of local permit applicants who’ve been stuck in-place virtually forever, or at least since the…

First Causes

When archaeologists from some other planet sift through the bleached bones of our civilization, they may well conclude that our temples were dams. Imponderably massive, constructed with exquisite care, our dams will outlast anything else…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, June 1, 2023

Clearing | Howard Creek | Allen Cooperrider | Trashman | Book Trap | Huff No | Pamela Elizondo | Before Weeds | Ralph Humphrey | New Deputies | Study Club | Mona Larry | Heroes & Patriots | Ed Notes | Flaming Arrows | Gas Money | Water Meeting | Report Competition | Trail Issues | Walk Home | Educators | Gaming Compacts | Costco Roll | Forest Service | Yesterday's Catch | Urban Refuge | Gun Fraud | Parking Meters | Baby Pictures | Troublingest Woman | Castro Theatre | Feelin' Groovy | Tooth Drops | Debt Deal | Ecocidal Crimes | Kill Plants | Comey Makeover | Closet Note | Ukraine | Westoration | Nutbush

County Budget Notes

It seems to have finally dawned on the Supervisors that blaming the Auditor time and again for their own failures and misperceptions about the County budget not only looks bad but won’t do anything to…

Letters (June 1, 2023)

If the SMART District is planning a spending splurge, then it is inconceivable to me why they are not revisiting and insisting on the vital connection…

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