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Posts published in July 2023

Mendocino County Today: Monday, July 31, 2023

Sunshine | Gualala Beach | County Notes | Pudding Silhouette | AVUSD Updates | Art Walk | Hot Pot Lot | Rock Layers | Citizen Connect | Two Types | Mini Farms | Golden Grass | Lazy Afternoon | Hoek Residence | Happenin' Here | Always Unfulfilled | Garden Tour | Yesterday's Catch | Three Realities | Lewis Hine | Forgotten Victims | Babe & Yogi | Biden Lies | Fox Barbie | Prince Shows | Herb Caen | Ukraine | Great Poem

Will SCOTUS Cure Big Pharma’s Anxiety?

On Tuesdays the New York Times still runs a “Science” section in the print edition. It never attracts advertisers but Big Pharma supports it with…

A Mendocino Remembrance circa 1942

When Alvin Mendosa’s long-time friend, Buddy Fraser, passed away in 2018, Alvin received a copy of Buddy’s memoir of town life during World War II.…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, July 30, 2023

Dry | Grass | Strike Vote | Spurs Fire | School Bash | Local Pharmacy | Tragic Drownings | Willits Library | Power Outages | AV Events | Pet Bullwinkle | Supe Recess | Barn Sale | Ed Notes | Mendocino Refuge | First MEC | Summer Set | Super Puffed | Yesterday's Catch | Meteor Showers | Comet Leonard | Barbie Thing | Not Identified | Dempsey Demise | No Manners | Fern | Marco Radio | Auto Parade | Sinead O'Connor | Phoenix Sun | Girls Leery | Ukraine | John Lewis | Bad Management | Flower Verge | Lonely Frank | Stupid Answers | Joe Scrivener | Reading Time

Conversation On An Airplane

The art of conversation, or at least practice, is as dead and gone as your grandmother’s DeSoto sedan. This didn’t happen last week nor last…

History & Highjinks

We continue our conversation with John Hulbert, Pacific Bell retiree and lifelong Anderson Valley resident. Recently, my brother Scott, who is also a PacBell retiree,…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, July 29, 2023

Quiescent | Road Sign | Be Aware | Officer Awards | Second DUI | Garden Sculpture | Name Change-In | Ukiah Construction | Ukiah Fair | AV Water Meeting | Jewelry/Metals Studio | School Days | Blackberry Festival | Supe Errors | Historical Society | Little River Museum | Hanneman Lives | Yesterday's Catch | Marco Radio | Hopi Girls | PG&E Event | 1980 Groceries | Rear View | ET Possibility | Esther Shorts | Human Stupidity | Origin Stories | Branding Jesus | Organ Grinder | Facebook Files | Abe Doh | Hunter Trial | GOP Barbies | Pepto-Boarding | RFK Denied | Ukraine | Pie Shot | The Sixties | Kabul 1971

Covid, Isolation & Loneliness

“Are you lonely tonight?” If you are a senior you probably are, according to Carla Perissinotto, a doctor and a professor of medicine at the…

Big Fight

Back home in the racist flatlands of Northern Indiana to visit my old man I decided to not hassle him for one day, twenty-four hours…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, July 28, 2023

Near Normal | Eel Bridge | Correction | Groundwater Plan | Night Out | Support FFA | She Shot | Class Idea | Westport Beach | Cannabis Department | Vanilla Leaf | Arrest Thyself | Blackbear Sentenced | Bill Zacha | Not Impressed | Caspar Roses | Shattuck Observations | Toney Archive | Boonville Eateries | Water Tower | Housing Request | School Fundraisers | Brothel Plaque | Midget Wrestling | Ed Notes | Old Mendocino | Yesterday's Catch | American Pickers | Peter Kropotkin | Deep Cleaning | Purdy Throws | Keep Calm | Quentin Plans | Maryvale Billboard | Water Subsidy | Ocean Currents | Making Music | Prone Trombone | Hansen Case | Jake LaMotta | Biden Implosion | Outrage Wheel | Ukraine | Dying | Remember Korea | Dog Soldiers

Resolving The ‘Duty To Avenge’

I want to let everyone know that the overwhelming number of positive responses to my recent series on “Crime and No Punishment” appears to be…

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