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Posts published in September 2024

New Renderings of Mendo’s $150 Million Courthouse Monstrosity

Nine more renderings of the planned $150 million Mendocino County Courthouse in Ukiah have been publicly posted by the state Judicial Council of California, which is overseeing the controversial project. A rendering of the front…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 9/5/2024

Mural | Hot Interior | Blue Whales | Parade Float | Council Candidates | Candidate Parading | Panther Wins | Preserve Tracks | Noyo Harbor | Name Changers | Bee | KZYX Move | Hopland Ashursts | Asking Directions | Left Evolution | Ed Notes | Hitchhiker | Herman Knaesche | Yesterday's Catch | Phoenix Heat | Women's Music | Deer Night | Sako Radio | Missing Husband | Your System | Workers Unite | Dignity Wraiths | Do Something | Last Third | Obnoxious Admiration | Bad Boys | Niner Doubts | Rude Clerk | Gig Workers | Class Fashion | Dysfunctional Democrats | Daddy Watches | Minimum Wage | Waitress Tip | Insecure Bully | Born Fool | Kamala Panache | Secular Talk | More Vegetables | Refusing Surgery | Israeli Injustice | Now & Then | Baking Bread | Shock Therapy | Stoking Politician

Oncology At The Coast Hospital

Weekend before last, as I made my way between Mendocino and Fort Bragg, it seemed like every encounter with a local included a question or comment about the Oncology Department at Adventist Health Mendocino Coast…

Valley People 9/5/2024

COMING SOON to South Boonville! Christina Jones and her husband Satoru ‘Ru’ Christy, former operators of the popular Aquarelle restaurant in Boonville before it closed a few years ago, are in the process of opening…

Mendocino County Today: 9/4/2024

Foxglove | Hot | Firewise Meeting | Bunyan Parade | Rocio Lupian-Lopez | Whooping Cough | Local Events | Mendo PTSD | Ed Notes | Harry Richmond | Toilet Talk | Yesterday's Catch | Income Inequality | Union Card | Poem Mashup | Baseball Greats | California Wolves | Cat Men | Daunting Job | Don't Like | Forest Talk | Late Swallow | Stand Up | Military Empire | Mass Deportation | Israeli History | Idiom/Homonym | Jerry Selz | Dirty Mind

I Bombed Judi Bari — The Mystery That Never Really Was

I’m desperate, Bruce. I’d considered bombing you at one time, but two bombings in Mendocino County at that particular time would have been pushing my luck, not that it was luck that I got away…

Imperialism: Conrad, Lenin And Heart Of Darkness

Imperialism was a loaded word, a most unsavory word, in academia in the U.S. in the 1960s when I wrote a Ph.D. thesis about Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad titled “The Mythology of Imperialism.” I…

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