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Posts published in December 2023

Proverbs of My People

A man’s what he is, not what he used to be Never pray for a new king A job is fine but it takes too…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023

Wind, Waves, Rain | Moon | Sandbar Breached | Much Gratitude | Johanna Lynch | Ominous Sky | Misplaced Complaint | Forks Cafe | Frank Riggs | Albion Mill | Mendocino Redwoods | Android Help | Except Gavin | Pianist Concert | Coit Tower | AVBC 35 | Nap Trick | Hulbert Bros | Beyond Capitulation | Bus Stop | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Game Grades | Knuckle Sandwich | Immigration Joe | Nuclear Plants | Martys | Fully Complicit | America Beautiful | AIPAC Congress | About Hamas | Murdered Children | Had Tails | Asymmetrical Conflict | Cafe Wha

Cubbison Case Delays & Demands

Beset by scheduling challenges and an injury, the prosecution of suspended Mendocino County Auditor Chamise Cubbison is grinding to a halt for the holidays.  Cubbison…

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Advent, the 25 days leading up to Christmas, is  a passage traditionally associated with wreaths, greetings and joy, a succession of purple and pink candles and…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023

Cloudy | Willits Peacock | Big Waves | Colorful Sky | Sandbar Watch | Ed Notes | Perfect Fire | Christmas Grinched | Day After | Herzog Family | Yesterday's Catch | Five Interceptions | Soft Age | Cycling Women | Vaccine Stacking | Willie McCovey | Albatross Draymond | Spare Tire | Homeless Solution | Air Freshener | Various Hustles | Doctor Fox | Evil Spending | Bombs Away | Destroying Life | Land Back | Marin Ceasefire | 1957 Thoughts

Letters (December 26, 2023)

My name is Shelli LaMadrid. I have been searching for ex-girlfriend Kathy LaMadrid since Dec 17, 2004. I am needing some answers from the public on her, still missing 19 years later…

Say What?

Say what, and to whom, and why? Such are the questions being asked these days by those who want to say something. And those questioning…

Money Loves Company

The first rich man to say yes to Ramparts was Irving Laucks, a vivacious 81-year-old who had a nine-year-old son, a millionaire to the tenth…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Dec. 25, 2023

Overcast | Christmas Lights | Little Encounters | Tracking | Kidney Stone | Haiku Ukiah | Working Holidays | Fungi | Water Projects | Cafe Neon | Cubbison Demand | Quarter Past | Melbourne | Bragg Irony | Town Meeting | Insurrection | No Snow | Candidate Kangas | Yesterday's Catch | Voters Decide | Artist Trees | Christmas Wish | Early Days | Wilt | Enemy Within | Needs | Fiducia Supplicans | Arcade 1975 | Politics 2024 | Country Caps | Biden Trajectory | Wasted Evenings | Alone | Bravo Belgium | Genocide Talk | Anti-Semitism | Patria Mori | My Car | Ford Pinto | Yuppie Prank | Sick Day | Before Christmas | Funky Sweater | Merry Christmas

A Little Christmas Tale

The excitement of Christmas in our post-war family of six was more than a little girl could stand. There were no extravagant gifts. My plasterer…

Ed Denson & The Pot War Days

Ed Denson was still a relative newcomer to southern Humboldt when he arrived in the 1980s. He had spent most of his adult life in…

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