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Posts published in September 2024

Rehab Update

Wow, two weeks since the hip replacement operation, and each day a delicious lunch is brought to me sitting in the recliner in front of the TV. I’ve been retrained to do the rest: make…

Kind Of Blue: Still On The Job At 65

Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue turned sixty-five last month, the same age at which the trumpeter would die thirty-two years after recording the album. The record shows no signs of infirmity. It has no plans…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 9/17/2024

Cool Day | Giant Pumpkins | E-Bike Fatality | Field Request | Arson Sentenced | McAbee Descendents | Mendo Dinged | Hotel Marysville | Poetic Parallels | Morning Rooster | Ed Notes | Rapp Painting | Better Bragg | Mortgage Rates | Orr Lecture | Chamber Music | Undecided Voter | Enthusiasm Generator | Women Strong | Morbid Sense | Yesterday's Catch | Capt Bonespurs | Cult Blue | Hard Day | DC Shootout | Drop Out | Niner Loss | Greatest Game | Super Hangover | McQueen & Mansfield | Lead Stories | Swift Certificate | Election Rigging | Alice & Dormouse | NATO Plan | Shooting People | Vegas Bound

A Sobering Discussion At The MCHCD Special Board Meeting

The board of directors for the Mendocino Coast Health Care District (MCHCD) met this afternoon primarily to approve the board's response to the Mendocino County Civil Grand Jury report. In the consent section of the…

The N-Word: Still Troublesome After All These Years

The N-word appears sparingly in James, Percival Everett’s 2024 novel that reinvents the escaped slave narrative while it recycles Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a classic set in the antebellum American South where…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 9/16/2024

Laguna Point | Fair Attendence | Mixed Forecast | Farewell Gabriel | RVMAC Meeting | AV Grads | County Notes | Covelo Library | Help JJ | Thatcher Anti-Library | Runway Turkeys | Ed Notes | Gladiola | Pioneer McAbees | Redwoods | No Mugshots | Yesterday's Catch | Public Schools | 9 Lives Matter | Failed Party | Vote Futile | Natural Man | Dem Party | Cuomonism | Lead Stories | Golf Shot | Idol Worship | Project 2025 | Grandma's Day | Niners Lose | Spare Armadillo | Progressive Resurgence | GG Fog

Donna Brazile

In advance Tuesday night's debate, the New York Times featured a “guest essay” by Donna Brazile in support of Kamala Harris. Brazile has the same Teflon coating that protected Judge Judy (AIDS patients “should just…

Letters 9/16/2024

I strongly agree with Skunk Train President Robert Jason Pinoli that the Great Redwood Trail needs reevaluation. While the railroad tracks in the Eel River wilderness are beyond repair, the tracks from Cloverdale to Willits are on stable and easily accessible ground…

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