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Posts published in October 2023

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…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023

Warming | Route 253 | Rain Prep | Unpermitted Coop | Current Situation | Death Brush | Misappropriation Charge | Eel River | Ed Notes | Brown Announces | Big Butt | Eligibility Specialists | Hearst Road | Skatepark Project | New Hire | Public Loos | Bridge Sign | Novelty Train | Yesterday's Catch | Baseball Decline | Hits/Strikeouts | Culture Disconnect | Hate Speech | Family Values | Free Phones | Inconvenience Store | Ukraine | House Call | Israeli Trepidation | Ronald MacGunner | Biden Visit | Forlorn Rags | 9.0 | Local Newspapers | Microwave

At The World Petroleum Congress

One of the panel discussions at the 24th World Petroleum Congress in Calgary last week was on “Social Responsibility: Earning a Licence to Operate.” “I get challenged by my children and grandchildren,” the executive secretary…

California’s Last Indian War

Book Review of ‘Hell With The Fire Out: A History of the Modoc War,’ by Arthur Quinn, Faber and Faber, 200pp, 1997. California’s last and perhaps most well known Indian war was fought in Modoc…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Oct. 16, 2023

Shower Chance | Ed Notes | Abandoned Trains | Past Misappropriation | Burroughs Memorial | Death at Building Bridges | Mendo Rainfall 2022-2023 | Sourdough Slim & Robert Armstrong | Fiscal Crisis/Geiger’s Markets | Eel River | Ukiah Soundtrack | Kelley House Cypress | Yesterday's Catch | Berkeley Bulrusher | Niners Lose | Granddaughter Fishing | Dislikes Protestors | Cartoonist Sacked | Gaza | Peace | Genocidal Campaign | Finest Medicine | Ukraine | Teen Confessions

Real Deal On County’s Fiscal Crisis

Most folks know that for months, I’ve called for the County to stop talking about the County’s fiscal crisis and start doing something, get to the bottom of the root cause(s), and then take decisive…

Dr. Jill Biden’s Diary

October 3, 2023 Oh Dear Diary: Whatever shall I do? If he doesn’t stop humming “Row Row Row Your Boat” I’m going to double the Thorazine starting in 10 minutes. (I can do that because…

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