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Posts published in March 2024

You Must Not Remember This

Over the years we’ve noted a trend in the American language whereby two words are made to substitute for one. I’m sure we’ve missed some and would appreciate any additions you, dear reader, can provide.…

Mendocino County Today: Friday 3/22/24

Rainy/Breezy | Torch Lily | Atheists Prayer | Road Work | Navarro Resilience | Barn Cats | Toothwort | County Notes | Scam Alert | Sheriff's News | Domestic Violence | Walton Poem | Blood Drive | Mockel Amazed | Alfonso Story | Homeless America | Ralph Esmay | Ed Notes | Navarro Mill | Sea Story | Yesterday's Catch | Highway Depressions | Bridge Jumpers | Noir Novelist | Times Square | 2024 Election | Parliament | Antisemitism Dodge | Masked | Devil Terms | Spring Training | Last Invocation

A Mother’s Beheading Shakes Little River

Little River, Mendocino County — The night before the shooting and killing and roaring flames changed everything, Asahn Smith got a text from a friend he hadn’t spoken with in years. Fletcher Pinkham, his old…

Johnny Pinches, An Appreciation

We have always considered John Pinches to have been a good supervisor, certainly a much better supervisor than any of his four colleagues when one applies the standard of the greater good. The prevailing myth…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 3/21/24

Calm Before | Sunset Sky | Domestic Murder | Pump Station Plan | Cape Horn Dam | Palace Emergency | Anaeyllis Gualalis | Library By Mail | Roadwork Intersection | Circumbureaucracy | Old Cadillac | Fingers Wiggle | Cook Job | Wine Biz | Mendocino Profile | Landline Backlash | Hawk Carving | Ed Notes | Tellyvision | Talmage Hopsital | David Colfax | Zilla Birthday | Palace Memories | Yesterday's Catch | Neeli Cherkovski | Computer Poem | 1920 Blues | School Attendence | Rico | Cheer Up | Jerk Coach | Free Seats | Hopkins Case | Senior Surprise | Greenwald Discussion | Oklahoma City | Rail Project | Inconsiderate Aloofness | The Sower

County Notes: Mendo’s Looming Mental Health Staffing Crisis

Sheriff Kendall told the ‘Like It Or Not’ podcast dudes in Ukiah recently that he will need an additional ten uniformed officers (and probably a few more non-uniformed) to staff the new “Mental Health Wing”…

Oscar’s Ring Of Fire

In those rare moments when the real pierces the illusions of Oscar Night, I grip the arm of my sofa, waiting for hidden burner rockets beneath the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard finally to ignite…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 3/20/24

Cloudy | Sea Rocks | Hit & Run | Lake Mendocino | County Notes | Yurok Land | Lemons Sandwiches | Eden Bar | Good Newspaper | Casanova Concert | Engaged Sheriff | Eel Bridge | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Wish List | Ali & Wilt | Butt Out | SF Waterfront | THC Content | Dairy Tabs | Tribes Win | Lampoon 1973 | Joe Dream | Condor Club | Salmon Alternatives | More Fun | Actor Esposito | Great Compensator | Brahms Cleared | Norwegian Apples | Media Bloodbath | Stable Genius | Remembering McVeigh | Barber Shop

Not Thinking About Rocks

One tolerable, humid yet cloudless July morning in the late 60s, the apparent aim was to relocate a buttload of ugly, undistinguished rocks — are stones bigger? to call them “boulders” would be hyperbolic —…

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