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Posts published in October 2023

A Last Farewell To Summer

This year we set out on the last weekend of September for our annual trek from Ithaca at the south end of Lake Cayuga to Watkins Glen at the south end of the next Finger…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Oct. 20, 2023

Cooling | Emandal Farm | Contaminated Beach | Tom Cahill | Human Remains | Mendo Headlands | Anna Taylor | Got Worse | Ed Notes | Charges Questioned | Chili Cook-Off | Road Maintenance | Postal Cairns | Name Changers | Theater Openings | Amazing Mockel | Coleman Guilty | Resiliency Meeting | Holiday Bazaar | Coast Foliage | Kelley History | Edna May Wonacott | Yesterday's Catch | Losing Dogmobile | Woodcarving | Dao | Religion/Spirituality | Utility Rates | Sugar Ray | NYT Oops | Ancestral Search | Fund Wars | Tax Map | Weapons Wrong | Ceasefire/Peace | EV Food | True Solidarity | Nosejob | Gaza | Urban Camping | Ukraine | Liked Ike

Public Thoughts On County’s ‘Fiscal Crisis’

The past couple of weeks, I’ve covered the fiscal crisis that has been the main topic under discussion at Board of Supervisors meetings for the last year. I’ve called for the County to stop talking…

For the Toy Department…Bill Veeck

(Slightly condensed from an article in the March 1949 American Legion Magazine by Paul Gardner) In mid-summer of 1946 Bill Veeck limped into Cleveland to head up a syndicate which had bought out the 6th…

All Through The Day [1965]

Let’s see how a day looks in San Francisco. To those who bend over a desk or a hot stove for eight hours, I guess a day in San Francisco is pretty much like a…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023

Warm | Pacific Sunset | Museum Library | Wildlife Pumpkin | Building Amnesty | Open Firestation | DA's Non-Vendetta | Re-Paving 101 | Acting ACTTC | More Questions | Curious Legality | Pumpkin Sales | No Authority | Misappropriation Defined | Golden Gate | Ed Notes | Skull Ring | Narcan Save | Hopland Church | Boon Box | Fishy Donuts | Yesterday's Catch | Clover Theater | Niner Country | Stopped Investing | Propaganda Museum | Now What? | First Step | Gene Fullmer | Same People | Equally Horrified | Carving | My Thoughts | Bikini Ticket | Biden Trip | Superheroes | Ukraine | Mays 1955 | Cancel Orwell | Boat Owners | Chuck Berry

County Notes: Another Finance Free Agenda

You might expect after the Board’s frequent hand-wringing about possible bankruptcy and structural deficits and looming budget shortfalls, ongoing employee negotiations, ongoing computer software problems with both the accounting system and the property tax system,…

Off the Record (October 19, 2023)

DA EYSTER is using his office to pursue personal vendettas. He has brandished his position as Mendocino County’s top law enforcement officer to threaten to run for judge against Clay Brennan of Ten Mile Court,…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023

Sunny Warm | Jughandle Beach | Ed Notes | Butterfly | Gleaning Party | Stupid Column | Branscomb Road | Listserv Tricks | Leaf Litter | Ms Disinfo | Ukiah Ennui | Creepy Trolls | AV Rieslings | Laguna Point | Guitar Quartet | Frog Woman | Yesterday's Catch | Herb Caen | Joint Speaker | Muscle Car | U.S. Response | Nob Hill | Ukraine | Stiff Joints | CounterPunch Retrospective | Passing Era

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