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Posts published in July 2025

Going Down With The Ship: Marcy Royal

Rite-Aid, a retail institution that has outlasted K-Mart, Sambo’s, the Lido, Montgomery Wards, Green Barn Restaurant, Palace Hotel, Palace Dress Shop, a century of Ford dealerships and Bank of America, will close its doors later…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 7/2/2025

Cooling | Dahlia | Peeper Rape | Keep Waiting | Balanced Budget | Congratulations Lucy | Firesafe Meeting | Village Newsletter | Jones/Bear Lady | Blue Hat | Local Events | Bielanski Willits | Yesterday's Catch | Headin' West | Influence This | $10 Crossing | Scam Alert | Giants Lose | Dead & Guilty | Automatic Writing | Open Non-Conformance | Hughes Yacht | Naming Cats | Lead Stories | Pathetic Country | Hypersonic Missile | Beautiful Disaster | Radar Challenge | Genocide Profiteers | India's Hypersonic | Jarrett Bach | Poking Fire | Ragtime Revisited | Joyce Dubliners

Rocky Mountain High

Someone very special, my husband’s sister Connie Atkinson, died recently and she knew exactly what she wanted to have happen after her death. She had her funeral arrangements mapped out, but she also planned a…

Rattle Bag

This morning (June 23) NYTimes.com ran this teaser: “Good morning. The Times pieced together the days and hours leading up to President Trump’s decision to strike Iran. It’s a story of diplomacy, deception and a…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 7/1/2025

Scattered Thunderstorms | Rosa | Catching Thief | Water Discussions | The Summit | Sunday Revival | Round Two | Cape Horn | Letter Rejected | 101 Drive-In | Headlands Flora | Folk Dance | Parade Marching | Blue Luke | Aruncus | Fuel Reduction | AV T | Yesterday's Catch | Cape Mendocino | No Empathy | ICE CEOs | Due Process | AB 928 | Dopes | Dispute Reality | Nothing Doing | Uh Oh | Congratulations! | Think Tank | Wasted Talent | Giants Lose | Haight Legend | Wild Nights | Newsom Ultimatum | Jack Menu | CEQA Rollback | Truckin' Bar | Gov Ware | Cockroach People | Furious Oligarchs | Road Fork | What Follows | I'm American | Bronx AOC | Abyss People | Lead Stories | Great Inequality | Bezos Wedding | Worst Bill | Hands Off | Stay Sane | Must Defeat | Trumpanyahu | Bob Vylan | Alleged Outrages | Hegemonic Aggression | Supes Hats | Woolworth Counter

Off the Record 7/1/2025

ELISE COX (KZYX News): At the Ukiah Town Hall on annexation Thursday night, Ukiah Deputy City Manager Shannon Riley laid out some unique ground rules — there were to be no statements or comments, only…

Juneteenth Merch

(A year late, and about $400,000 short…) Juneteenth has a double-edged significance. The one-day happy ending is now celebrated as a federal holiday, while the extension of slavery by the diehard racists running the Great…

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