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Posts published in February 2024

Mendocino County Yesterday/Today: Feb, 5/6, 2024

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Death, & How We’ll Profit From It

Went to a funeral in Ukiah and most attendees were leaning heavily toward 80 years old. Don’t know how many made it back home from the services, but a lot of them looked due for…

Chicago’s Legendary Organizer

The Jazz Age novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald, once said famously that “There are no second acts in American lives.” Scott changed his mind, at least for New York City. In the midst of the Depression,…

Letters (February 5, 2024)

I was at the Supervisors meeting on Jan 9th when the Veterans Office Relocation was protested. The Board of Supervisors are a disgrace…

The Origins Of LA’s Owens Valley Water Theft

There is a widely held view that Los Angeles simply went out to the Owens Valley and stole its water. In a technical sense, that isn’t quite true. Everything the city did was legal (though…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024

Windy | Ocean Cliff | Palace Neglect | Myers Break-In | DA Hires | Comptche Chapel | AVUSD News | Panther Ballers | Grange Cleanup | Pet Fanny | AV Events | Save Landlines | Double Rainbow | Ed Notes | Greenwood Oasis | Political Ciphers | Shrub | Oppose Genocide | Pigeon Point | Ukiah Haikus | Yesterday's Catch | Blaming Dams | Minimum Wage | Gig Work | Lucky 13 | Beans & Rice | Steal 24 | Rainbow Pride | Mountain Heart | Audi Workers | Marco Radio | Assassination Memories | Target Shoplift | Pass Boldly | Big Bad | Swift Judgment | Criminal | Big Club | Without Artists | Storm Survival | Bell Flower

The Day They Burned The Apple Trees

“Why it's positively Vesuvian out there!” exclaimed a nicely dressed forty-ish woman waiting at the counter of Café Glad in Boonville for the decaf latte she'd just ordered. “Where on earth is all this smoke…

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