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Posts published in November 2023

Scorsese’s Take on the War Against the Osage

The Osage called the war that was waged against them in the 1920s a “Reign of Terror.” The terrorists were all white men—white settlers, white businessmen, white criminals, white cowboys and white lawmen— who committed…

Letters (November 20, 2023)

I’ve known Chamise Cubbison since she was a child. She’s always been honest and incredibly bright. I’ve heard from her co-workers that she’s diligent and hard-working…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023

Cease Fire | Hospital Ships | Skyhawking | War Racket | Deliberate Instigation | Cloud Bank | Clearing | Pet Amigo | Sandbar Watch | 1964 Flood | Grocery Outlet | Barbie Sales | AV Events | Fall Color | Hard Work | Boonville 50s | Williams Filing | Mystery Stairway | CARB Regulations | GRFD | Institutional Dysfunction | Headland Rainbow | Life Art | County Courthouse | Yesterday's Catch | Marco Radio | Geese V | Unreal ID | Not Thinking | Censorship | Illuminati | Fish Farm | Liston/Clay | Klamath Dams | Farm Folk | Gun Safety | Fillmore 66 | Falling Apart | Bottle Time | Prixelrod | Row Man | Ukraine | New Chyrsler | Car Keys | Beachrunner

Mile High Musicology

Go West, middle-aged man! Horace Greeley took one of the first stagecoaches into Denver in the 1850s when the place was just a mining camp born of the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush. From New York…

Tweeker Takeover

When I got home from my trip I struggled with the padlock on the gate, finally got a wrench from my car and banged it open, and noticed my lounge chair was in the middle…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023

Showers | Church Tower | Pillsbury Plan | AVUSD News | Redwood Classic | Palace Progress | Stornetta | PG&E Increase | Shopping Night | Ed Notes | Lobster Mushroom | Listserv Vote | Moderating Libel | Albion Bridge | Lost Password | Bolete | Marco Radio | Caspar Cattle | Yesterday's Catch | Human Folly | We Tow | Jesus v Muhammad | Resignation | Trump Sandwich | EV Concerns | Hearing Test | Mass Murder | Snowpersons | Leaving Blobtopia | Merry Thanksgiving | Solitary Man

Antiwar Veterans Day

Last week three veterans who opposed the US intervention in Vietnam years ago told their stories at a symposium that’s now online (Google “Peace Movement Support for Antiwar GIs”). The speakers were John Kent, a…

The Old Man & The Backpack

It is the third week of September and I am at Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park, getting ready to embark on my first backpacking trip in nearly 35 years. The setting is familiar, as…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Nov. 17, 2023

Showers | Noyo Harbor | 253 Fatality | Gaza Protest | Q Approved | Betty MEC | FFA Contest | Winterize Garden | Mailbox Sky | Budget Numbers | Williams' Focus | Clouds & Light | Support MCHS | Ukiah Construction | Campaign Manager | Cline Concerns | Ed Notes | Eliminate Glyphosate | Petit Teton | Simply Succulent | Filigreen Farm | Yesterday's Catch | Embrace Season | DST | 2023 Vintage | Flight Prices | Palestinian Solidarity | Bat Boy | Tribalism Chokehold | Throw Remote | Lonely Liberals | Palestine Coin | Insufficiently Hysterical | J-Turn | 10 Ways | Doc Visit | Ukraine | Kid Shuckers | Pandemic Policies | Foreign Policy | Gaza | Canned Goods | Revisiting Waco | Matzo Ball | Gaza Poetry | Fetching Water

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