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Posts published in December 2024

Report From A Campfire Of The Resistance, San Francisco, 2024

The dust had not yet settled around the White House and the foul air had not yet cleared from above the nation’s capital, but the campfires of the resistance were already burning brightly. They were…

The Great Flood of 1927

Most people couldn't recall a time like it. For months on end in the midwest of 1927, and across much of the country, it rained steadily, sometimes in volumes not before seen. Southern Illinois received…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 12/9/2024

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Off the Record 12/9/2024

KAMALA'S CAMPAIGN COST What happened to the $1 billion war chest that Kamala Harris managed to blow through in less than three months during her failed campaign for the White House? The answer seems to…

When Ray Hall Retired

In the fall of 2008, the Supervisors shoved their long-time Planning and Building Director Ray Hall out the door, wishing the portly bumbler well in the insincere fashion characteristic of Mendo farewells. In a deposition…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 12/8/2024

Gradual Clearing | Hopland Church | Small Works | All-League Footballers | Pet Froggy | Haschak Report | Covelo Painting | Heart Attack | Redwood Sculpture | AV Events | Calling It | Alpha Male | Lighten Up | Smoking Niner | Homeless Stories | Your Life | Deregulation Fiasco | Never Knew | Jim Jones | Civic Center | Black Bart | Yesterday's Catch | Late Empire | Copy Leonardo | Marco Radio | Pupfish Habitat | Seismograph | Restacking Firewood | Frictionless Death | Who Killed | Insurance Horrors | God? | 11 AM | House Democrats | Bubble Signs | Aged Worker | Lead Stories | In Syria | Alien Baby | Empire Victory | Marley's Ghost

Full Moon Shines On The Boonville Fair [2008]

I like the Fair best that first day, that Friday early afternoon when the flowers are still fresh, before the crowds become so thick it's hard to find old friends among all the strangers, the…

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