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Posts published in January 2026

Off the Record 1/6/2026

ERIC HART, Willits, has announced he will run for the Mendocino County District 3 supervisor seat. https://mendovoice.com/2025/12/eric-hart-enters-race-for-mendocino-county-district-3-supervisor-seat/ ARTHUR JUHL (Gualala): I ran for Supervisor but I was not a Democrat. If you are you have…

Dear Santa,

I want words that leave cinders, curls of smoke rising from black ash, words without paper, words that set desks afire, burn holes in doors, melt & shatter vaults, the eyes of buildings — molten…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 1/5/2026

Rain | False Turkey Tail | Hwy 1 Open | AV Foodbank Update | Pomo Homes | House of Joy | Grewal Suit | Tie Makers | Wrong Turn | John Mattila | Mendocino State Hospital | 12 Days | Lemons Tour | Yesterday's Catch | Arcata Fire | Predicted Venezuela | Night Conference | Bold Prediction | Deep Threats | Tax Break | Profoundly Shortsighted | Don't Like | The Dubliners | The Warfield | Xmas Gifts | Bennett's Heart | Martha Gellhorn | American Character | Bad Ideas | Lead Stories | Say It | Derrick Raising | Donroe Doctrine | Rogue State | Military Coups | Papi Trumpo | Venezuela | Captured | America's Backyard | War Decisions | Milky Way | Stick of Gold

Letters 1/5/2026

A friend lamented that so many of his neighbors fly the American flag — to him, a sure symbol of fealty to Donald Trump. I disagreed…

From the Archive (1/11/1984): Editor’s Desk

WHILE TRYING TO PEDDLE MY PAPERS in Albion, I was pleased to sight 10 or so hearty specimens of Genus Hippus Americanus, a species I assumed extinct, or now members of the Republican Party. I…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 1/4/2026

Showers | Bragg Protest | Hwy 1 Closed | Ukiah Protest | Special Master | Jerrold Cardoza | ICE Hotline | Don Dale | AV Events | Pet Sherman | DA Stats | Elsie Allen | Yesterday's Catch | Marco Radio | Whiteman Vacations | Boomer Pride | Get Back | Bay Area Flooding | 49ers Lose | State Budget | Whiteman Camping | Gangster State | Sunday | Giants Sheltering | Apostrophes | Maduro Raid | Watering Tree | Illegal & Unwise | Rich People | Soldier's Dream | Without Me | Lead Stories | Every Empire | US Objectives | Trouble | Sis Murder | Isabel Cooper | Martha McKeen

AV Elderhome 2025 Review

Every December the Elder Home provides you with an update of the year's activities, and here is the roundup for 2025. We are so grateful that our wonderful community continues to sustain our project and…

Goodbye 2025!

2025: The year that tried very diligently to take me out, silence me, and put me in my place. Perceived place, that is. There are some who desire my presence to be diminished, shamed, and…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 1/3/2026

Breezy Showers | King-Tide Day | LaFever Case | Fungi | Community Disservice | Washed Ashore | Mendocino City | Black Bart | Yesterday's Catch | The Birds | Marco Radio | Palm Leaves | King Tides | Above Bishop | Solar Solution | Fine Haired | Mistaken Identity | Agrivoltaic Ranch | Rough Men | Sleepy Sailors | Affordability Crisis | Difficult Hours | Impotent Congress | Midnight Taste | Neighborhood KKK | BYD Cars | Lead Stories | Intervene Ready | Buckle Up | Hildegard Knef | Caracas Attacked

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