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Posts published in August 2023

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…

The Dream Car

Almost everybody seems to agree that the Mendocino/Sonoma coast is some of the most beautiful landscape on the planet, and many of us who feel that way covet real estate there. I’m generally immune to…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, August 28, 2023

Coolish | RR Tunnel | Grange News | Thanks Boonters | Goal Allowed | Poor Conduct | Ed Notes | Stagnant Turmoil | Slum Art | MAC Committees | Prather Picnics | Yurok Caps | CPUC Collusion | Redwoods | Weger Ranch | Mini Walmart | Teacher Pay | Adventist Madera | Mr Sixties | Unnecessarily Dramatic | Yesterday's Catch | Mark Rippee | Neighborhood Spectacle | Open Container | Niner Offense | Food Costs | Health Spending | Drug Crisis | Basketball Elena | Burn Local | Texas Flooding | Social Mafia | Balls or Not | Brother Cornel | Get Julian | Meet the West | Ukraine | Prigozhin Pool

AV Schools Phone-Free

Some Mendocino County students were asked to do the “unthinkable” this week when school began — put their phones away all day. “I saw students walking and talking instead of with their heads down and…

‘On The House,’ John Boehner’s Barstool Memoir

If you think golf is not only a great form of recreation or business meeting, but a grand metaphor for life and politics, if you admire people like Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and Dick Cheney,…

A Moment of Bravery

In 1974 I was trying to get my house plans through the Mendocino County Building Department for a building permit. I had presented my drawing of a two-story house to be constructed of redwood logs…

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