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Posts published in June 2023

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

County Notes: The Mockel Debacle

(Mockel who? Mockel being shoved down our throats by the Democrat's Northcoast machine.) Last month, at the time I filed my Brown Act complaint to ferret out the Supervisors’ unanimous, simultaneous endorsement of recently declared…

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