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Posts published in October 2024

Sometimes You Get Lucky

“Yes,” someone even casually acquainted with me might say, “sometimes you do. And sometimes you go through life with a shamrock-festooned horseshoe hovering over your head like a protective halo, allowing you to continue drawing…

In Praise Of The First Piano Duets

The season has changed, if reluctantly. Time to put the storm windows on the old clapbord house, tune the grand piano and take out a volume of 18th-century duets off the nearby music shelf. And…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 10/21/2024

Cool | Covelo Skatepark | Partisan Politics | Obey | AVUSD News | Wildfire Plan | Haunted House | Save Pillsbury | New Faces | 20 Years | Vote | Wonder Thriftshop | Column Shift | Dobbie Bros | Ed Notes | Hi Mom | Yesterday's Catch | Dying River | Sugary Food | SpaceX Sues | Czjwinostawcz | Political Silence | Accept It | 1960s | Ask Him | Poor Americans | Postmodern Falstaff | Savoy Tivoli | Niners Lose | Not Jose | Game Grades | Burned Out | Clinic Protests | Ultimate Dessert | Lead Stories | Email Regret | Alpha Whiner | Blowback | Buy Art | Ben Suc | Good People

Letters 10/21/2024

It appears increasingly likely that D.A. David Eyster’s case against suspended County Auditor Chamise Cubbison and fired County Payroll Manager Paula Kennedy will fall apart. It never seemed to hold much, if any, water.…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 10/20/2024

Warm | Neon Flapjacks | Measure S | Local Events | Elect Lindy | Forever Banner | White Doofi | Palace Memories | Pet Goatee | Losing It | Ed Notes | Vintage Clothes | Prop 36 | Lansing Street | Eel River | Kristofferson Ranch | Yesterday's Catch | Flunk | Cannabinoid Concern | Hiccup Cure | Klamath Salmon | Chief Perhaps | Pete Rose | Don't Wonder | Lit Conflict | Marco Radio | Illustrated End | Bay Blues | Jets | Dem Convention | The Stroll | Sense & Nonsense | Country Divided | Hot Seat | Ark Debark | Dream Price | Demon | Sun King | Distrust All | Electoral College | Be You | Lead Stories | Israel Regardless | Palestine Peace | Brodsky Tips | What End | She Drank | Long Term | Last Cherokee

Fairfax Phil

My neighborhood is like most in Marin, suburban-sedate, a combination of young families, working people, the elderly which, of course, includes me and my wife of sixty-two years. Architecturally, we live in a mix of…

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