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Posts published in July 2025

Letters 7/23/2025

As I read about PG&E recruiting bodyguards, all I could think was, “Who is protecting us from PG&E?” …

Department Q: Noir Thriller From Netflix

I’ve never watched a noir thriller on Netflix that hasn’t disappointed me in some way or another. Netflix mass produces noir thrillers, and crime dramas like Vera with Brenda Blethyn the way Warner Brothers once…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 7/22/2025

Eel River | Near Normal | Missing Kids | RV Issues | Walter Stenback | Harvest Starting | Guilty Pleas | Blue-Meadow Farm | No Annexation | Pig Raffle | Residents List | Twinned Towers | Women-Led Business | Open House | Hollywood Night | Wendling Cookout | Yesterday's Catch | Slug Stroll | Craig Available | Shoplifting Everywhere | Wild Carrot | Giants Lose | Best Sandwiches | Tillman Unraveling | Brute Attraction | Fear Comes | Dirty Mind | Toward Autocracy | Epstein Files | Merry Pranksters | Objective Journalism | Explaining Russiagate | Mr Opinion | Duluoz Ride | Lead Stories | Pity Nation | Israeli Strike | Resist Injustice | Genocide Profiteers | Eleven Stories | One Question

Off the Record 7/22/2025

A LETTER TO THE EDITOR in this week’s edition of Jim Shields’ Mendocino Observer from a writer calling himself “The Thorn, Laytonville” entitled “Yet Another of Five Stupid Mistakes Made by Mendocino County Administrators —…

Mendo Monographs

If Mendocino County history fascinates you, there is a great source of entertaining information in the 60 year old publications of the Mendocino County Historical Society. Readers can find them in libraries, in the archives…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 7/21/2025

Cooler | Lotus alpinus | Artificial Turf | Slug Stroll | Drought Protection | Housing Homeless | Stigma Narrative | Elder Meals | Nickel Drive | Rosie Grover | Benefit Concert | Yesterday's Catch | Glider | Tariff Tax | Pretty pathetic | AOC Vote | Portsmouth Square | Reject Tunnel | John Muir | Detest Grammarly | Goal! | Giants Swept | Leon Abduction | Higher Ed | Immigrant Roundup | Basquiat/Picasso | NPR Elitism | Paint Eggshell | Lead Stories | Deadly Aid | River Road | Starving Gaza | Bob Twin | Pitt-Stop Symphony | Jerry Garcia | Bookmobile | American Way | Bottle Cap

Valley People 7/21/2025

ON MONDAY July 7, local social media briefly lit up when some traffic was held up on Highway 128 east of Yorkville because, according to an initial report, “a train had fallen on a truck.”…

Trump, Musk Feud Revealed

A One Act Play Setting: Oval Office, White House Cast: ELON MUSK, Tycoon DONALD J. TRUMP, President ELON MUSK: Alright it’s been great Bro, but I gotta get rollin’ or the board will either fire…

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