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Posts published in November 2024

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 11/21/2024

Rain & Wind | Small Farm | Ukiah Time | Fiddler North | Margie Handley | Hannah Missing | NCS Football | Guitar Class | Misplaced Blame | Ed Notes | Gowan's Cider | Basketball Clinic | Taco Music | Open Studio | Closing Thoughts | Sally! Documentary | Alonzo Kendall | Boonville 1909 | Yesterday's Catch | Vatican Drama | Deserve It | Blues Weekend | Klamath Salmon | EPA Head | Stolen Slug | Anti-Social | Nostalgia Pop | Vietnam 1969 | Lion Grow | Right Words | Simple Truth | Flat Tire | Lead Stories | Move On | Tawdry Scandal | Crusty Wonders | Maga Fanboys | Fog Couple

Disrupters Claim Credit For Fixing The Problems They Created

Like most Mendolanders, if you didn’t know the history, after the self-congratulatory November 5 financial presentation you might believe the Supervisors’ underhanded and ill-considered financial office consolidation and abrupt ouster of former Auditor Chamise Cubbison…

An Old Fart Analyzes The 2024 Election

When Donald Trump won in 2016, you could plausibly argue that he was a fresh face, and voters didn't know what they were getting. Eight years later, he's very familiar. For your next president, America…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 11/20/2024

Incoming | Storm Warning | Highway Closure | Irish Beach | Flood Watch | Issa Niambele | Priscilla Hunter | Wellness Calendar | Palace Hotel | Kendall City | Harp & Violin | Gran Kermes | Not Dead | Old Incline | Ferry Launch | Yesterday's Catch | San Francisco | Class Action | Sucker Loser | Cheesy | Burleigh Bone | Girls | Lost Coast | Noisy Backpacking | Walking Bass | The Niners | Bluesky Meeting | Market & Powell | Trump Sports | Human Relations | Lead Stories | Bad Hair | Whiny Wokesters | Golden Gate | Finding Aliens | Buddhist Cheatsheet | Deportation Plan | Cheap Comics | Nuclear Chicken | Not Intelligent | Whitewashing Genocide | Shasta Snow

Mendocino State Hospital: Where Mysteries Abound

The Mendocino State Asylum for the Insane, later named the Mendocino State Hospital, was the birth place of many ominous tales surrounding not only the mentally ill but also the criminally insane, in addition to…

Navarro Ridge History

The Navarro Ridge is an area with a lot of interesting history, and following is a story about a small bit of it. Included are two images of the far western portion of the ridge,…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 11/19/2024

Wet Ahead | Planting Postponed | Sunset Colors | Storm Warning | Rainfall Estimates | Alfred Bolton | Bake Sale | Bomb Cyclone | Sternick Guilty | Four Hours | Hydroclimate Whiplash | Fungi | NCS Playoffs | Third Pounder | Holiday Bazaar | It's Jesus | Hamiltonian Angel | Sponge Bum | Strong Worker | Holiday Dinner | Ed Notes | Haley Returns | Special Considerations | Yesterday's Catch | Airplane Mode | Kelseyville/Konocti | Four Copies | Quiet Settlement | Fightin' Words | Roller Coaster | Total Moron | Crows Remember | Everything Bad | Lead Stories | Straight Answers | Beyond Consequence | Fantasy/Reality | War Departments | Redefine Fringe | 37 Towns | Public Hearings | Woke Insult | Typical Evil | Alfred Lennon | Fort Lawton | Live Laugh Love

A Courthouse For Stalingrad

Mendocino County’s next courthouse remains on track despite opposition from everyone except those in line to profit from its construction. Conceptual drawings of the building come from Khayun Lee, a Colorado architect who says she…

Confessions Of A Coffee Jock Packed Tight & Pulled Short [2008]

Johnny Lunchbox was a workhorse with a lick-the-boot mentality. Clocking time. Waiting for his day to come, until out of boredom or necessity, he tied himself off with the brown junk. Just a taste; take…

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