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Posts published in March 2024

What’s In A Name?

A lot more than we thought. Take Fort Bragg. Driven by the pique of social-justice activists, Fort Bragg’s in trouble, because of its name. Philip Zwerling, BA, MFA, PHD—born in New York, here via academia,…

Baby Bach Will Be Heard

Even frivolous fictional characters have found a convenient whipping boy in the youngest son of J. S. Bach. The late, lamented Dr. Peter Schickele’s send-up biography of P.D.Q. Bach quips that the talentless rogue had…

Mendocino County Today: Friday 3/8/24

Cool & Clear | Variety Show | Septic Success | Loaner Sheep | County Notes | Ballot Counters | Love Adam | Old Office | Paint Job | Garden Starts | Beach Stroll | Ed Notes | Plungo | Name Change | Science Fair | Pastel | Volunteer Training | Unity Club | Remember Them? | Climate Resilient | Neil Benefit | Toxic GP | Planning Cancelled | Yesterday's Catch | Give More | Cafe Terrace | Murder | SOTU | Shrinkflation | Gaza/Israel Aid | Free Speech | Funny Stickers | Reason v Emotions | Tadich Grill | Wrongly Convicted | Furry Lewis | Alcatraz Escape | Dust of Snow

Transparency Or Secrecy?

Mendocino County tries to portray itself as transparent. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. As someone who has continually researched and tried, for several years, to obtain detailed records from our County, this is…

Valley People (March 8, 2024)

TO OUR READERS OF THE AVA'S PAPER-PAPER We knew the day would come, and it has. We're old and ailing and no longer able to meet the physical and bureaucratic demands presented by the production…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 3/7/24

Sunny | Kwan Tai | Shields Update | New Lieutenants | Election Night | FFA Trip | Election Notes | Variety Show | Abandoned Vehicles | Liberty Control | Planning Workshop | Temple Entrance | New Coordinator | Neil Benefit | Ed Notes | History Day | Release Concert | Stupid/Lazy | Yesterday's Catch | Scooter | Sako Radio | Light Spot | Prop 1 | Blue Vote | Immigrants | Wimps | Obviously | Native Plants | Awkward Truths | For You | Locked Out | Soy Chorizo | Allegedly | Ferlinghetti | Party/Cult | Bed Maid | Sachs Interview | Think Differently

State Agency Leaves Palace Grant Decision In Limbo

A state agency on Friday left hanging a decision about the fate of a controversial $6.6 million taxpayer-funded scheme to demolish the historic Palace Hotel in Ukiah that is sought by a Mendocino County tribe…

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