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Posts published in September 2024

A Marijuana Murder, An Alcohol Death

Jose Luis Gonzalez told his family he was going hunting. He didn’t tell his family he was going hunting for marijuana. Gonzalez, 34, was a non-violent hunter. He went hunting marijuana without a gun, and…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 9/3/2024

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Why I Left Spring Grove

I left Spring Grove (Albion) in 2003. I did not leave willingly. I was evicted. I have honestly tried to put the betrayal behind me. Soon afterwards the strange looks from former friends, the turned…

The Great Divide

There’s much hand-wringing these days about the political polarization of our country. This angst is real and empirically provable in evolving individual state and community laws and regulations and, of course, in the very existence…

I So Affirm

That's what freethinkers say when asked to swear to God, as I was asked in a Chicago courtroom in December 1969. I testified that Tom Hayden told me one night during the 1968 Democratic Convention…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 9/2/2024

Sand Dune | Cool Day | Labor Day | River Warnings | Coast Guard | Homeless Roundups | Sake Bar | Sandwich Machine | Ed Notes | Willits Cowboy | Hit Man | Proud Parent | Cool People | Yesterday's Catch | Pearsall Released | Bereft Commentator | Visual Dystopia | Entering Ohio | Mask Off | Capitalism Country | Scary Intersection | Polio Vaccine | Craven IDF | Digging In | Subhuman | The Psychos

Letters 9/2/2024

My husband and I were appalled to see the photo of the design for the new courthouse in a recent Ukiah Daily Journal. My first thought was that it looked like a prison…

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