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Posts published in August 2023

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, August 31, 2023

Cooler | Fraser Update | Playground Construction | Algae Explosion | Big River | Shelter Shakeout | Zoomer | Incompetency Crisis | Bees | School Meeting | Boxing Club | Boonquiz | Ed Notes | Slaves | Commons Tragedy | FB Church | Tiny Bulb | Yorkville Social | Sustainable Government | Poetic License | Faulder Interview | Yesterday's Catch | Utility Tax | Amish Drive-By | Slow Train | Fumbling Joe | Microchip Cats | Ancestry Surprise | Rent Control | Flying Story | 11 AM | Walked Back | Vahl's Restaurant | Blue Moon | Many Ties | Murph Stories | Tina | Deleted Accounts | Beat Scene | Ukraine | So Obtuse | Indian School

County Notes: Stonewalling & Ducking The Issues

The only mention of the pending employee strike (possibly in early September) due to the County’s failure to provide even a token cost of living increase offer to the nearly 700 member Service Employees Union…

Letters (August 31, 2023)

The City of Ukiah needs to erect a memorial plaque at the intersection at Orchard and Gobbi where Dr. Doug Rosoff was killed in a biking accident in 2012…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Fire Weather | Hills | Breezy | Supermoon | Football/Futbol | Yard Sale | Wetter Winters | Navarro Estuary | MAC Vote | Yorkville Social | Amateur BoS | Gualala Arsonist | Westport Land | Doomsday Cult | Hang Town | Bragg Forever | Mental Myths | Museum Events | Theatre Comedy | Biodiversity | Miles Paoli | Crumb Himself | She Pays | Yesterday's Catch | Hurricane Idalia | So Thoughtless | House Meeting | Bud's 1970 | Watching | Mob Boss | Not Debates | Ed Notes | Always Great | Brains | Newsom Knock | Cooking Workers | Africa | Gracias Madre | Off Grassing | Drug Overdoses | Beer Sign | Silent Censors | Room NY | Stormy Monday | Leash Toto | Terminology | Strangers | Ukraine | Earthly Delights

Off the Record (August 30, 2023)

FROM THE OCTOBER 14th, 1898 edition of the Mendocino Dispatch-Democrat (Ukiah): “All the speakers were given a generous share of applause and the presence of three men so noted for their honest and intelligent work…

Valley People (August 30, 2023)

PANTHER SOCCER TEAM CONDUCT We are having some really poor conduct from our soccer team. Athletic Director John Toohey and I will meet tomorrow with players for one final warning and a written agreement. If…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Breezy | Bovines | Forklift Fire | Whale Sculpture | MAC Dissolvement | No Shame | Saving Money | Dahlias | Citizen Participation | Lamb Stuck | Great Day | Planted | Greenwood History | Graffiti | Worker Rally | Busy Arguing | Ed Notes | Coast Trail | Case Review | Watertower | Edible Magazine | Rain Philosophers | Radiology Services | Sunset | GASP Grants | Yesterday's Catch | Jail Primer | Left Wing | Dorothy Parker | Brook Trout | Dem Moves | Fast Knockout | Violent Nation | Paddy Wagon | Impeachment Express | Have Two | Ukraine | Blue Mountain

Donner’s Party: Wagner’s Das Rheingold of Fire

Near the close of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold, the first of the four operas that make up his epic Ring of the Nibelung cycle, Donner the God of Thunder delivers a depressing weather report—literally so,…

Who Closed Mental Health Hospitals In California?

Given the UDJ’s series on the homeless-mental health-substance abuse issue, I thought it would be timely to take a look at one chapter of mental health history in California that I’ve written and spoken about…

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