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Posts published in June 2023

Forgot to Plant Your Summer Garden?

They say to wait until after Mother’s Day to plant your summer garden because there can always be a late frost. I waited and then I waited and then I waited some more, distracted by…

Pablo’s Folly: The High Lifter Pump

Wasting time, money, and energy on The Marijuana Highway… (What's done is done and all I can do is look back with regret but that's not helpful so it's time to just move on but…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, June 24, 2023

Overcast | Rhododendron | Troublesome Director | Proceed | Van Tripping | Fence Lizard | No Joke | Drug Culture | Wines Served | Swamp Preference | SNWMF Return | Ed Notes | Ukiah Construction | Massage Clinic | Guard Rail | Case Resolved | Redding Show | Chief DUI | Hiring Event | Yesterday's Catch | Marco Radio | Merry Pranksters | Humanity Crisis | A.N.C. Williams | Teachable Moment | German Stowaway | Ukraine | Other Arm

When You Can’t Fix The Big Things…

California, percentage-wise, has the most human beings living in poverty of all 50 states. Its economy is foundering as techies search ever more fruitlessly for toe holds in an economy based substantially on fanciful, clickable…

The Oakland Ass

I went to a protest the other day and a baseball game broke out. A veritable demonstration. No, it wasn’t the players this time. Nor the umpires. And there was absolutely nothing political about it.…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, June 23, 2023

Cloudy Morning | Cabrillo Point | Water Diversion | Savannah Memorial | Body Found | Alvarez Me-Hauls | Rossi Storefront | Ed Notes | Mobile Adoption | School Sale | Mackerricher Beach | Historical Society | Fresnel Lens | Missing Library | Endless Stone | Wagon Ride | Nivette Update | Foggy Landing | Water Witches | Camp Navarro | Summer Beer | Windmill Removers | Pink Zone | Rancheria Creek | Gallery Bookshop | Cabrillo Lighthouse | Sherwood Stories | Yesterday's Catch | Wine Shorts | Re-Elect Zombies | Exciting Enough | Fake Believe | Opera Heaven | First Date | SF Collapse | Lesser Evil | Native Reparations | MRI Fun | Sub End | Supreme Corruption | In America | Ukraine Project | Trust Bond

Budget Put To Bed; Weed’s Back In The Ground

At their annual budget hearing on June 6, the Board of Supes unanimously ok’d the 2023-24 budget mostly by utilizing over $7 million in one-time funds. Ted Williams, of the Coast’s 5th District, capsulized this…

The Torment of Ted Kaczynski ‘62

“They took a clean-cut kid and made a killer out of him, that’s what they did.” –B.D. As atheists and intellectuals, Theodore and Wanda Kaczynski were atypical among second-generation Polish-Americans who had been raised Roman…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, June 22, 2023

Cloudy Skies | Caspar Rose | Ed Notes | Mobile Adoption | Layoffs Suggested | Shots Fired | Dump Not | Lighthouse Tours | Where's This? | Transportation Study | Yesterday's Catch | Lost Sub | White Rock | Trading Away | Gus Newport | Radical Homebody | Wolverine Return | Durham Questions | Ducky Down | Ukraine | Class Cancelled | Vonnegut Story | Willits Mural

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