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Posts published in January 2025

Growing Up Hippie

Growing up in my family was a trip. At any time I could be hauled off to an impromptu gathering overrun by urchins with names like Gaia, Tao, Cinnamon, and Raven. We once visited some…

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

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