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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 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

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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…

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 a job down here in a winery. It's just a…

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 and Pilar Echeverria. THE AV SENIOR CENTER Crab Feed last…

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 late Vice-president up at the Ridgewood Ranch outside of Willits.…

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