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Posts published in February 2025

Mendocino County Today: Friday 2/14/2025

Rain Ends | So What | SWAT Langenderfer | Palace Repair | Local Events | Eel Pact | Lion Eyes | THP Resubmitted | Against Expansion | That Sick | Twomey Closes | Clinics Fundraiser | Ed Notes | Baskerville Mystery | Discovering AV | Heading Out | Yesterday's Catch | While Waiting | Nutria Invasion | Valentine Stalking | Happy Valentine | Plame Book | Turnovers | NBA Wine | Evolution | EPA Corruption | Endangered Wildlife | Raving Lunatic | Lead Stories | Human Behavior | Just Call | NYT Ad | Constitutional Crisis | Slingshot | Trump Fixation | Little Things | Poor Henry | Thoreau Daguerreotype | The Phoenix | Cave Girl

County Mulling ‘New Type Of Transient Habitation’

At its next Tuesday meeting, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors will again discuss whether or not to allow a “new type of transient habitation” referred to as “Low Intensity Camping.” According to the staff…

Valley People 2/14/2025

REMEMBERING CHARMIAN Charmian, like Cher and Madonna, achieved single-name renown on the Northcoast partly, perhaps, because her long-running column in this publication seemed an anomaly, a little old lady writing little old lady prose about…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 2/13/2025

Rain | Unpicked Grapes | Diversion Agreement | Weed Ordinance | Weird Habits | Crass Propaganda | Cool Again | KZYX Petition | Happy Valentine | Big Band | Silver Jewelry | Feep's Cafe | Family Dance | Ed Note | Greenwood Mill | Boonville Visit | Panther Ballers | To Eugene | Vichy Tavern | Yesterday's Catch | Dessert | Home Prices | Delta Smelt | Super Waste | A Coup | Not Jewish | Next Time | Haight History | Original Sins | Reporting Musk | Homeless Ban | Street Crosser | All-Star Game | Ed Carlson | Love America | Sad Thing | Final Fruit | Get Greenland | Nothing New | Lead Stories | Stormy Qualified | Not Villains | Terms Later | Taibbi Statement | Pick It Up | Meanness & Mendacity | Wretch Puke | Dangerous Time | Wild Scene | Ransacked | Owens River Gorge

Supervisor Haschak’s Terrible Dilemma

Item 4c on next Tuesdays Board of Supervisors Agenda: “Discussion and Possible Action Including Direction to Staff Regarding “Rule 18a: Public Expression” of the Rules of Procedure of the Board of Supervisors (Sponsor: Supervisor Haschak).”…

Your Enemy Is My Enemy

Growing up during the Great Depression, my parents understood the value of a job on a visceral level. My father, who grew up in Chicago, recalled that the first thing his father and his friends…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 2/12/2025

Rain Coming | Road Slump | Dusk Musk? | Indivisible Mendocino | Sports First | Public Expression | Grief Support | Working Retirement | Opus Concert | Bragg Blues | Ukiah High | Ed Notes | Navarro River | Yesterday's Catch | Halftime Show | Eating Disorder | Man Made | Wristband Rule | Montaigne Said | Marijuana Instead | Tesla Threats | Mexican Riviera | Goofball Sidekick | Import Tax | Unlimited Funding | Another Nakba | Drill Instructors | Bass Solo | Creation Conscious | Lead Stories | Feel Helpless | Fascistic Coup | Fired | Two Shooters | All Same

Let’s Do The Trump Dance

Sculpting Donald Trump’s journey into epic poetry or Hollywood screenplay would demand neither exaggeration nor fiction. Trump’s path from 2016 political ingenue to the White House is without parallel, and his 2020 defeat, dealt him…

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