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Posts published in July 2024

‘Slow March’ To Division

There was a time in the good ol’ USA when manufacturing was booming, factories were humming and workers were making things on assembly lines. “Things” weren’t all that workers were making, because money was also…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 7/6/2024

Hottest | Sunset | Cooling Center | Threatening | Flea Market | Brother's Lament | Hot Shot | Shoddy Bill | Garden Art | MCERA Option | Inflatable Sam | Last Fireworks | Arena Weekend | Ukiah Construction | Mime Troupe | Water Tale | Tree Women | Winning Essay | MTV | 86ed | Poetry Calendar | Ed Note | Eliza Kelley | June Ranch | No Reward | Yesterday's Catch | Writing Tips | Mad King | Rabid Capitalists | Hard Chargers | Intervention Party | Pool Party | Dream Ticket? | Jackie Robinson | Obese Americans | The Wilsons | British Election | Male Siri | Marco Radio | Generous E | Fairfax Marquee | Deadliest Roads | Lunch Counter | NYT Stories | Bible Story | 3rd Party | Jackson Pollock | Media Nitwits | Rio Bravo | Gaslight Off | Act Shy | Middle America | Presidential | Campaign Ally | Latest Pole | Kamala Option | Calamity Jane | Pretend Shock | Siegfried & Roy

Off the Record 7/6/2024

FORMER COUNTY TREASURER-TAX COLLECTOR SHARI SCHAPMIRE: “Ms. [Sara] Pierce [Auditor-Controller/Treasurer-Tax Collector] told the Board that the County has lost about $22 million in tax defaulted properties that have gone uncollected for years and thus written…

Kinky Friedman (1944-2024)

When I read Kinky Friedman's obituary the other day I felt like crying and laughing. Laughing because I laughed at the lyrics to many of his songs, including “They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore,”…

Mendocino County Today: Friday 7/5/2024

Willits Parade | Heat Wave | Carrier | Heat Illness | Evening Light | Agenda Notes | Local Events | Catching Sixto | Assault Victim | New Stripe | Lahn Art | Salvia | Ed Notes | Aloe | Colfaxtoids | Point Arena | Sixties Giants | Yesterday's Catch | Don't Wait | McSecret | Grid Bill | Was Rigged | Diablo Disgust | Today Spesial | Water Restrictions | Conn Hallinan | Ignorant Power | Remembering Ringo | Fighting Sugar | Carrots | Theroux Writing | Booty Call | No Vacation | Smokey Says | Disunited States | Oil 'N' Blood | This Fourth | Us or We? | Common Sense | Potatohead | NYT Stories | Scare Me | President Addled | More Sleep | Street Memories | American Genocide | Supreme Check | Machine Age | Melons | Windchime | Happy Birthday

The Fourth of July, 2024

Once upon a time, there was America, and it was great, or at least that's what my teachers taught. Then I grew up, and one by one over the decades of my life, the grand…

The New Normal On The Streets

On Wednesday, June 26, 2024 our deputies were called to the report of a stolen bicycle. In a short amount of time, they were able to locate it in a homeless camp along with the…

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