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Posts published in October 2024

Mendocino County Today: Friday 10/25/2024

Becoming Sunny | Trail Fire | Supper Song | Shooting Range | Appliance Sale | Handley & Hanks | Football Showdown | Domestic Violence | Local Events | Dam-Free Rivers | Duo Recital | Chestnut Gathering | No Leftie | Ed Notes | Unsolved Crime | Big River House | Photo Show | Yesterday's Catch | Redwood Classic | Wine Shorts | Low Numbers | So Nice | Deportation Threat | Little Putter | CO₂ Powder | Jane Jacobs | Finding Kamala | Lead Stories | Lotta Dope | Murderous Logistics | Heretic | Prison Diary | Slippery Steps | Tell Mama | Ship Cats | Harsh Realities

Partisan Politics In Nonpartisan Elections

In 1986 California voters supported Proposition 49 by a 56% to 44% margin. Both the state senate and assembly had approved the idea behind the proposition by more than a two-thirds majority. Prop 49 amended…

Water Woes

“No river should reach the ocean.” — Stalin Not so long ago there was so much water in the summertime Russian River you could water ski at Healdsburg. Where did all the water go? Why…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 10/24/2024

Dry | Painting | Hospital Meeting | Prop 2 | Pharmacy Burglars | Thanksgiving Meals | Budget Excitement | Wooden Boat | Alley Sisters | Block Print | Marijuana McKoy | Ceramic Art | Measure S | Salmon Info | Marco Baiting | Quilt | Studio Apartment | Brooches | Open Studios | Barn Art | Dirty Cello | Pottery | Ed Notes | Not Freaks | Clyde Doggett | Yesterday's Catch | Soy Boys | Future Dating | Prop 36 | Ailing Niners | Left Shrank | Fernando Valenzuela | Other | Lead Stories | Deindividualized | Good Question | Censorship Group | First Job | Gut Feeling | Denial State | Gone Mad | Furious Funucci | Gaza & Lebanon | Free Palestine | Justification | Extermination | The Secret

Valley People 10/24/2024

AV FIRE CHIEF ANDRES AVILA: I reached out to CalFire regarding the status of the Mountain House Road multiple fire investigation and the Grange Fire investigation knowing full well that investigation information is appropriately kept…

County Agenda Notes: Doing Less With More

For next Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, lame duck Supervisor Glenn McGourty has prepared a “presentation” (i.e., a few casual notes typed into a PowerPoint format-template) alleging that the Supervisors need more “staff support” so…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 10/23/2024

Mild | Matson Benefit | Physical Therapy | Fraser Memorial | AV Artists | Free Food | Football Rankings | Friend Opossum | Finger Pointing | Bans | Lights Festival | Fur Elise | Abalone Memories | Gardening | Defamatory Statements | Hot Damn | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Unsubsidized | Cloverdale Esmeralda | Popcorn Sutton | Bum Adjacent | Restaurant Work | Nosey Banker | VW Van | SQ Giants | Fat Men | One Wish | Butkus & Sayers | Lead Stories | Kill Twitter | Fry Cook | Shooting Children | Bibi Drone | Holocaust Return | Visitors | The Moon

Calling All Masochists

We can and do empathize with those who for circumstances unexplained and perhaps inexplicable, toil at tasks that cannot be accomplished. A man spending his days, years and lifetime pushing a boulder up a steep…

Revisiting White Man

My sorta friend, White Man, was ecstatic at San Francisco’s growing Asian population. Chuckling in anticipation of a Tiananmen-like purge of the hundreds of metropolitan irritations besieging him, White Man would say, “When the Chinese…

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