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Posts published in October 2023

Take This Job…

My condo building is peopled for the most part by liberal Baby Boomers interested in the world around them, and on a recent balmy afternoon a group of us sat chatting as neighbors do at…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023

Clearing | Mendo Fog | Boonquiz Break | Hopland Grocery | Flower Garden | Assessor Report | Old Truck | Ed Notes | Walking Tractor | Harvest Dinner | Coast Flora | Yesterday's Catch | Sako's Friend | Candlestick Parking | Building Standards | Farmworker Exhibition | Downtown Crumb | Unprogressive Kennedy | Raven & Crows | Hero Candidate | Big Spider | Ukraine | Bookman | Not NATO | Tree Rings | Never Left | Free Stuff | Peace Obstacle | Sidecar Pig

How ‘Dry’ I Am!

Did you know that Mendocino City went “dry” ten years before the rest of the USA? In the summer of 1909, the voters (men) of Mendocino decided to eliminate the sale of liquor. It can…

Amerika Uber Alles

Try whistling a few bars of the Star-Spangled Banner in downtown Kabul if you want to find out how effective a national anthem is at making enemies. A less deadly outbreak of red-flag-waving hymnody made…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Oct. 2, 2023

Cool | Fall Color | Assessor's Report | Woodstove Replacement | Wild Garden | Structural Deficit | White Goat | On Zooming | Not Guilty | Goodbye Summer | Sutro Baths | Bostrodamus | California Zones | Tow Trucking | Jaca Concert | GG Wave | Paperboy Memories | Yesterday's Catch | Senator Butler | Cliveden Set | McCaffrey TDs | Kerouac TD | Klaas Case | Not Magician | Stone Mountain | My Hometown | Infinite Capacity | Missing Revolution | Unread Books | Kropotkin's Death | Artistic Treason | Ukraine | Toting Hubby

Mapping The Pandemic In San Francisco

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.” – Hunter S. Thompson The pandemic has generated waves of anxiety and depression, but it has also been a boom to creativity. I’ve known both. I’ve…

Almost An Adventure

Riding downtown to Seattle on the #99 bus, I seated myself behind two 30-something women speaking Swahili or something, and their young kids in strollers. Behind me sat a white or lightly ethnic man, folded…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023

Cool | Navarro Sandbar | AVUSD News | Apple Harvest | 5150 Reduction | DiFi Mendo | Panther Loss | Ed Notes | Lost Sailor | Regenerative Uprising | Pet Bernie | TWK Pride | Harvest Moon | Assemblage Camp | Farm Girl | Mendocino Schools | Library Troubles | Yesterday's Catch | Twin Outrage | Plugged In | Communist China | Dairy Queen | Marco Radio | Witches Stairs | Shutdown Averted | Lee Shore | Two Punch | Il Fauci | Chaplain Advice | Senator DiFi | Deathbed | Like Winter | Genuine Draft | Economic Priests | Ukraine | Wrong Life | Victimhood | Ghastly Crime

Letters (October 1, 2023)

Jackson State Forest is at it again. After withdrawing several defective timber plans last year, they had a public meeting last week in Fort Bragg to announce their new “Camp 1” timber project…

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