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Posts published in October 2023

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

A Pair of Vindictive Indictments

In a sharp escalation of a running political battle between two elected Mendocino County officials, a felony criminal charge of misappropriation of public funds was filed Friday against County Auditor Chamise Cubbison by District Attorney…

O Israel…

At the tender age of 19 I boarded an Athens-bound train at the Gare du Nord station in Paris. I was on a train because my mother was appalled that I had been thumbing my…

County Auditor Suspended Without Pay

In a stunning move Tuesday, Mendocino County supervisors suspended embattled Auditor Chamise Cubbison without pay although the elected county official has yet to have a chance to enter an expected not guilty plea to a…

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