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Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Jan 30, 2016

Quake Talk;
Niño Watch;
Sunrise;
Next Sunday;
Willits Makeover;
Public-safety Dollars;
Pagan Troubadour;
Honzik Acquitted;
Malcolm Reading;
Rodriguez Sentencing;
Prize Patrol;
Privatization Warning;
FB Senior Center;
Higher Education;
Shelter Saboteurs;
Prioritizing Obligations;
Solar Victories;
Yesterday's Catch;
Bacher Banned;
KZYX Inspection;
Sako's Application;
Marco Radio

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Jan 29, 2016

Flood Watch;
Sunrise;
Chouteau Apology;
Shelter Suspensions;
1978 Mystery;
1986 Tragedy;
Oscar Movies;
Warrior Basketball;
Homelessness;
Heid Wanted;
Curious Conundrum;
Who's Drunker;
Michael Kennedy;
America's Descent;
Political Sideshow;
NYer Cover;
Yesterday's Catch;
Press Freedom;
Virus Crisis;
Southern's Writing;
Ukiah Artwalk

Suffering Fools

My friend John Grimes, the cartoonist, recently sent me an article from the Washington Post about Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump for President of the United States. The writer of the article suggests that since both Palin and Trump are Reality Television stars, this endorsement furthers the frightening trend of American politics becoming little more than a media circus designed to numb the populous while aggrandizing the stand-ins for the despots.

The True Causes

After over 20 years of mostly unsuccessful treatment for depression from both psychiatrists and psychotherapists, I have seen a bias in treatment toward internal causes of depression like brain chemistry, thoughts/cognitions, emotions, behaviors, and very…

Three Votes

A long line has formed in front of La Basilica de Nuestro Padre Jesus de Medinaceli, a Roman Catholic Church, specifically a basilica, located in central Madrid. The line is spread across several blocks. Dejected…

The Stony Lonesome: No Homers

Alan "Sunny" Crow, late of Fort Bragg and more recently cooling his heels down Corcoran way, made his presence known here in the letters column a few issues ago where he said some nice things…

Chesapeake Bay, Not Summer

I worked for the Baltimore News-American at the time of the blizzard of '66. I had a blue-and-white 4-place airplane. The News-American asked me to take a photographer up for pictures. We took off the…

The Agonies Of Sensible People

Much as many people-who-ought-to-know-better have been enjoying the disruptive antics of Donald Trump, surely other cohorts and coteries have endured dark nights of the soul as they witness the 2016 election spin into a perfect…

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