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Posts published in August 2023

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…

The Mystery of Graveyard Creek

One sunny day more than a few years ago, Don Pardini was working in Evergreen Cemetery when a couple of odd-looking bones caught his eye. They weren’t hog bones, deer bones, dog bones, cat bones,…

The Sneeze

Seattle hosted the baseball All-Star Game a few weeks ago, so the city, of course, cleared all the bum encampments within parking distance of the stadium. The sweeps were cruel but almost comical — the…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, August 26, 2023

Clearing | Beach | Mary Luther | Elk Garage | Pool Rescue | Great Day | Panther Win | Phillip Busbee | Too Much | CSD News | Garage Sale | Dissolving Committees | MacKerricher Shore | Transparency Lack | Wifi Password | Tree Cutting | Gloriana Showcase | Doctor Bashing | Ed Notes | Hippie Toss | Rental Ordinance | Economy First | Planting Oaks | 1941 Packard | Ukiah Construction | Doug Rosoff | Copper Camera | Mental Illness | Deinstitutionalization | Populating | Yorkville Social | Morning Show | Old Barbies | Huge Arker | Yesterday's Catch | Litter Free | All Backwards | Marco Radio | Pencil Carving | Disgusting Smell | Vacate Order | Oil Disposal | Anoushka | Free Beer | Santana Watch | Lab Rat | Not Falling | Wretched Place | Never Surrender | Or Death | Campaign Photo | Totally Lawless | Imminent Separation | Except Bears | Ukraine | Money Tree | Sell Weapons | Another Summer | Buffalo Roam

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