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Posts published in February 2024

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…

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…

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…

Skid Row [1938]

“What're you doing down here on Skid Row, Willie! Did your old man finally kick you out?” “No, I'm still living at home. I've got…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024

Showers Diminish | Rainbow | Landline Petition | Gaska Endorsement | Ocean Wave | Common Sense | Commercial Space | Local Notary | Lambing Season | Lemos Bench | Edie 116 | Peer Committee | Ukiah Construction | MCBG News | Kelli Returns | Bob Concert | Ed Notes | Hotel Covelo | Ted Theory | One Way | VSIP | Yesterday's Catch | Special People | Swifties Meet | Marco Radio | Still Life | The Economy | Worst Fear | Presidential Debates | Beyond Beautiful | Trump Shortcomings | Had Enough | War Delirium | Neoliberalism Con | Cat Picture | Imperial Outposts | Superhuman Task | Black Activist | MLK 1967

Valley People (February 3, 2024)

AS MOST OF US KNOW, Anderson Valley is a matriarchy. The Valley is run and managed by women, prominently among them these two, Lauren Keating…

Seabiscuit & Cars

The death of Walter Mondale brings back strong memories of when many other Mendocino County residents and I had a firsthand face-to-face meeting with the…

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