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Posts published in December 2023

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023

Clearing | Buffleheads | Found Dead | Dem Disgust | Candidate Forum | Ed Notes | Dog w/Bone | Encountering Jake | PG&E Millionaires | Ceasefire Event | Nobody Cares | Bridge Toll | Local Ecology | Remnant Apples | Shoestring Budget | Woodstock Reunion | Rogers Endorsement | Life Jacket | Albion Mill | Xmas Trees | Yesterday's Catch | Deadly Speedballs | Waterfront | Wind Project | Jack & Larry | Herb v Pigeons | Anti Zionist | Tells It | Fifth Column | Chief Fan | Say What | Funucci Snubbed | Funding This | U.S. Terrorist

Etiquette Guide, 2023

An updated guide to modern manners is overdue, and Mendocino County residents are plainly in need of etiquette instruction for the 21st century. Gone is the Emily Post era when heads of household needed to…

Strangers In A Rainstorm

When I was young, Seattle was a city of rain, frequent and sometimes ferocious. The very heavy rains I remember from decades ago don't seem to happen very often any more. Maybe because I don't…

Patty’s Pardon [Sept. 1999]

Pardon me, but pardon Patty Hearst? What’s the rush? So she can vote Republican in Y2K? Presidents frequently drop pardons as one of their last acts in office, but the powerful Hearst Corporation is working…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Dec. 11, 2023

Clearing Skies | Around Gualala | Candy Dealer | Sandbar Watch | Dem's Choice | Dog Dumping | Rossi Window | Ed Notes | Holcomb 90 | Rock Wall | King Bolete | Eighties Weed | Mansion House | Yesterday's Catch | Amateur Outreach | Niners Win | Joey Bye-Bye | American Blood | 1955 TV | Saudi Opposition | Reagan Tour | Fox Rot | Renewable Grump | Cease Fire | Belly Buttons | Palestinian Rights | Happiness Defined | Varient Spread | Crime Stories | Since 1623

Barred Owl To The Rescue!

As we heard from the Eureka Times-Standard a couple of weeks ago, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) wants to shoot a lot of barred owls - more than 400,000 in fact! … in…

Letters (December 11, 2023)

I recently did a Public Records Request for several items I am scrutinizing in last year's budget, to see where OUR tax money is being spent…

One Sunday Afternoon [1949]

Mr. and Mrs. San Francisco are drawn irresistibly to the sea on a sunny Sunday. They drive in droves through Golden Gate Park, straining for that first glimpse of the water. They spread out along…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023

Chilly | Beach | Missing Man | Cablecar | Sandbar Watch | Lee Adams | DUI Crash | Tree Tat | Coast Carolers | AV Events | Pet Coal | Huckleberry Jam | Professor Gizmo | Garritson Recital | Inside KZYX | Good Mime | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Public Utility | Bee Friendly | Water Tunnel | Mediocre Males | Embracing Diversity | Film Illusion | Roslyn Carter | Rat Standards | Next Door | Just Sayan | Ceasefire Menorah | CNN Guidelines | Purple Lobster | Tarawa | Gettysburg | Ivy League | Crazed Youth | University Hate | Love World | Marco Radio | Season's Greetings

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