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Posts published in December 2023

Food? Cooking!

I first tasted food in the crowded but livable Brooklyn neighborhood where my parents rented a small, dark one-bedroom apartment. My mother didn’t have to buy or cook the food since it came directly from…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Dec. 4, 2023

Chance Driz | Pelican Bluff | Healthcare Greed | Holiday Bazaar | Night Thieves | School Meeting | Prop Tax | AV Events | No Training | Willits Ranch | County Notes | Froh Show | Ed Notes | Raskin Book | Etiquette Guide | Darkroom Class | Jazz Concert | Chris McGlothlen | Noyo 1919 | Yesterday's Catch | Humboldt Independent | 1930s Abalone | Rate Hike | Miss Healdsburg | Niners Win | Walt Stack | Gray Squirrels | U.S. Healthcare | Got Rizz | This World | Pitcher | Shitweasels | Kissinger Legacy | Walker Hancock | Wandering Jew | Morning After

Anderson Valley’s Last Pot Bust

It was October of 1999 when California's Attorney General made national news by announcing that marijuana cops had racked up a record haul of marijuana from Mendocino County gardens. The Attorney General's triumphant press release…

The Cruise

The travel brochure promised happiness and a trip I’d never forget. That promise was more than fulfilled in August 1959 when my Grandmother asked me to join her on a ten-day cruise to Nassau in…

Chinatown, Our Chinatown [1950]

The biggest Chinatown outside of Asia. Where 30,000 people are crowded into a few blocks, so they can attract tourists and disease. Chinatown. Beloved indulgently and condescendingly by the rest of San Francisco—as long as…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023

Showers | Classic Finals | Boat Parade | Glass Blowers | Recommended Play | Pet Monica | Lawyer Poaching | Clare's Matchbook | Cubbison/Eyster | Red Tagged | Grange Achievements | Eel River | Rejected Agents | Navarro Estuary | Montgomery Woods | Hell's Ticket | Noyo Sunbathers | Ed Notes | Halt Woodman | Gift Idea | Sportsmanship | Beer Porn | The Hub | Russian Gulch | Pomo News | Fay Lanphier | Old Days | Yesterday's Catch | Marco Radio | No Pants | Bottle Bill | Blonde Badger | Narcan Save | Polly | Censorship Statement | Heaviest Element | Burning Tires | Kissinger Crimes | OpenAI | My Right | Underdressed | American Venus

Senior Benefits: Low Income Housing

The HUD low-income senior housing complex in Garberville is a cute assortment of one bedroom cottages, between the hospital and the library, on the edge of town with views from benches out to the canyons…

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