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Posts published in June 2024

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 6/26/24

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Changed Circumstances: Out With Elgar’s Pomp

No work of music has a greater lock on a single ritual than Edward Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance March no. 1 does on American graduations. Cock an ear in the direction of high school and…

Dreyfus Affair…Trump Affair?

The Dreyfus Affair. Alfred Dreyfus was a French military officer convicted of treason in 1894 for allegedly passing military secrets to the German embassy in Paris. Dreyfus was sentenced to life imprisonment and transported to…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 6/25/24

Assange Free | Starflower | High Clouds | Ukiah Carjacking | Community Lunch | No Comment | Local Events | Ukiah Softballers | Scharffenberger Hiring | County Audit | Safety Dispatcher | Against Re-Interpretation | International Art | Skatepark Update | Ed Notes | Music Festival | Killing Rats | Yesterday's Catch | Sidewalk Ends | Cloverdale Expansion | Mt Tam | Fantasyland | Embrace | It's Torn | Depression Graph | Birmingham 1967 | Gun Safety | Beating Trump | Beauty Contest | Sexual Gatekeepers | Republic | Cactus | Supreme Cases | Tough Guy | Our Quandary | Bad Actors | Hug | NYT Stories | Comanche Empire | Cultural Zionism | Brook Trout | Despair Song | After Rain

Palace Hotel Grant Ensnarls State Agency In Internal Strife

A Mendocino County tribe’s scheme to secure millions of dollars in public funds to demolish the historic Palace Hotel is at the center of politically charged strife engulfing the leadership of a state agency. Newly…

Letters 6/25/24

It is becoming obvious we are all simply spectators in the social experiment which is playing out in California. Over the past several years residents of our state have continued to suffer from the effects of Proposition 47…

Nursing Home Visit

I was walking down the long hall at my mother’s nursing home when I heard a bright cheery “Hi!” behind me. I turned around and saw a woman in her nineties rolling toward me in…

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