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Posts published in January 2025

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 1/4/2025

Partly Sunny | Frosty | Bad Faith | Bowling Balls | Trash Service | Catfish Conviction | "Slow" Down | Anchor Management | RCS Treatment | PIT Count | Senior Lunches | Ed Notes | Saltgirl Apparel | Catholic Crabfeed | Piano Concert | Planning Cancelled | Old Ukiah | Yesterday's Catch | Old TVs | Marco Radio | Cult | Safe Havens | Bookworm Group | Immigration Policy | Watch Drinks | Prop 36 | Normal Burnout | Paying Purdy | I Believe | Didion Books | Suspected Killer | Charles Willeford | Dog Stays | Healthcare Rage | Hey Nonny | Mind Control | Dimwit Trumpsters | Caffeine Spectrum | Disparaging Donald | Captain America | Adelson Video | Dark Drawer | Odious Villain | Ruffles Conundrum | Class Action | Beatnicks | Lead Stories | Just Energy

Letters 1/4/2025

Unfortunately, the California Public Utilities Commission is controlled by the utilities it is supposed to regulate. Six consecutive rate hikes approved for PG&E. A billion and a half in profits last year…

Do Not Go Gentle…

As a lifelong vagabond, I grew up used to entering new worlds of local customs, identities, standards, and mythologies — never knowing how long each new encounter might last (Dad’s frequent transfers from one military…

Mendocino County Today: Friday 1/3/2025

Altocumulus | Showers Likely | Baby Duwehni | Handyman Stefan | RCS Numbers | Unity Club | Bumspotting | 2024 Deaths | Knight Stories | Crab Feed | Coast Painting | Martinis & Popcorn | Way Back | Sideways Screening | Delightful Resolution | Mendo Lansings | Yesterday's Catch | 108' Wave | Eschewing Sugar | County Highway | Outing Bragg | Abbie & Amy | Giant Mary | Modic Memories | Militarization | Debunker | Bleeding Heart | Copyright Expirations | Atlantic City | Common Good | Her Fancy | Bottle Episode | Street Musicians | Legalizing Psychedelics | Native Inmate | Foreigners Gross | Lead Stories | Don Meredith | By Heart

Valley People 1/3/2025

RICHARD YATES: Vehicles stranded on Highway 128? Per scanner 128 is closed. Multiple parties stranded due to flooding. Anderson Valley Fire Chief Andres Avila Confirms: Yes, we were dispatched Sunday for a water rescue at…

This? I Do Not Understand These

Things I’m unable to comprehend: Greeting Cards I’ve never understood why greeting cards are so expensive. It’s a folded piece of cardboard with flowers or kittens on the front and inside something deeply deep, like…

Mendocino County Today: 1/2/2025

Mostly Cloudy | Ukiah | 2025 Arrives | Cobb Quake | 2024 Deaths | Spyrock Snow | Sheriff's Message | Cargo Container | Egg Cartons | Another Year | Sako Radio | Tanoak | Ed Notes | Hot Potato | Meteor Shower | Long Plan | Poor Newspaper | Old Philo | Yesterday's Catch | Kamp Estate | Crumb's Mentor | Big Cat | Crying Shame | New Laws | Apache Woman | Lead Stories | Great Question | Medical Advice | Vaccine Controversy | JFK Case | Babe 1934 | Nobel Prize | Distraction | Weird Things | Orleans Portrait

Appreciating 2024; Anticipating 2025

The New Year that was about to happen has now arrived. Worldwide communication fills the air with dire predictions, warnings and laments. It is hard to remember a world in which you had to wait…

Hard Finding The Truth If You Don’t Look

Last week I wrote about how our elected representatives and their staff down in the county seat far too often flummox themselves and disrupt the orderliness of the governing process by creating problems seemingly out…

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