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Mea Culpa

The Monday Morning Meeting With The Mayor (MMMM) just did not work out for me. The Mayor informed me by email of the error of my ways. “The Monday morning meeting with the mayor was never intended to be a press conference. You somehow fail to grasp that,” boomed Mayor Lindy Peters.

Irony Sufficiency

I am a big fan of irony, as a literary device. I enjoy its use by writers and I employ it liberally myself virtually every, time I put pen to paper. Saying what you mean,…

Medical Marijuana: The Baseball Analogy

The headline on Robert O'Connell's New York Times piece March 27, "Baseball's Unappreciated Power Duo," referred to Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard. The piece begins: "Baseball’s great power partnerships range from the foundational (Babe Ruth and Lou…

John Hsu, Prince of the Viola da Gamba

In the final pages of Charles Burney’s massive four-volume General History of Music published between 1776 and 1789 and the first of its kind written in English, there appears an elegy for an instrument that…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Hart FB;
Rain Cometh;
California Nutmeg;
Hated YouTube;
Wildflower Show;
No ORVs;
No Abs;
Mobile Asphalt;
Little Dog;
Doctor Diablo;
Sheriff Embezzler;
Shelter Kudo;
Catching Estrella;
Cannabis Hour;
Spit Myth;
Yesterday's Catch;
No Heroes;
Scapegoats;
Snowpack Decline;
Insurance Assurance;
Grassy Knoll;
Cultivating Community;
Sako Hung;
Gloriana Auditions;
Ukiah Symphony;
Library Events;
Dummy Updates;
Job Opening

Sunrise Suicide Pact Goes Badly Awry

Last Wednesday, March 28th, Joseph Mantynen, 32, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced to 26 years and four months in prison for the death of his wife, Mary Mantynen, a 23-year-old mother of two, also of Las Vegas, who was shot dead by police officers last December 21st at the Sunrise Motel on South State Street in Ukiah.

Off the Record (April 4, 2018)

THE COUNTY'S helping pros packed the Ukiah Convention Center last week to talk back to the author of the Marbut Report, Marbut himself. Marbut had been paid a cool fifty grand by the County to…

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