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Posts published in July 2023

Mendocino County Today: Monday, July 17, 2023

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What’s Next For Native Americans? 

I. Unceded Ohlone Land If you’ve attended a recent public event at a library in San Francisco you’ve probably heard someone on stage tell the…

Beats & Hippies

I decided Ramparts Magazine should check out the roots of the New Jerusalem. The question was what, if anything, the hippie phenomena represented besides a…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, July 16, 2023

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The Glory Days

When I read that the New York Times was disbanding its sport department, I gulped. One more nail in the coffin of conventional news media.…

Duct-Taped To A Couch

Tracey crept up on you bit by bit. Eventually, you’d sense yourself relenting. The fastidious rational brain no longer bothered calculating how much of his…

Dam Vulnerability

For all their breathtaking immensity, dams are oddly vulnerable things—a vulnerability that is shared and greatly intensified among the millions of people who depend on…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, July 15, 2023

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Sweet Sixteen…

I was peacefully sipping my second cup of coffee and cycling through the morning’s newspapers back in the day when my 16-year-old daughter strode into…

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