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Mendocino County Today: Friday, Jan 30, 2015

Hare Creek Vote;
Arik's Verdict;
Collapse News;
Mayoral Reasons;
Ukiah's Telescope;
Legal Grease;
Catch of the Day;
Drought Outlook;
American Pie;
Austerity;
Simpson University;
Mocking Marshawn;
Foodshed News;
Police Reports;
Tribal Pot;
KZYX Salaries;
Office Linebacker;
Legalization Strategies;
Museum Roadshow

Finding Orlando

Marking the beginning of a new year on January first is a foolish thing. January is a cold, wet month filled with gloomy skies. Check the obituary page, more people give up the ghost in…

The Dow or The Tao

No stocks or bonds, no savings account, no credit cards. Essentially I am an economic non-person, living on the cheap. The upside of this is no debt, the downside is few luxuries, at least of…

Flight

(The following excerpt is from a chapter by Anderson Valley resident Susan Robinson, of her recently published book, The Music from the Lighthouse — wherein we follow the journey of Autumn Pender, a writer and…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Jan 29, 2015

KZYX Elections;
Catch of the Day;
Raven Earlygrow;
Mental Health Court;
Nostalgia on Steroids;
Crazy Driving;
Offshore Quake;
FB Coast Trail;
Remembering Treefrog;
Museum Exhibits;
CalFire Graduates;
Hotel California;
Hare Creek Concerns;
Amputation;
Shasta Dam

The Stony Lonesome: Happy New Year!

She moved as if she were visiting from a planet with a less dense and restrictive atmosphere; gravity seemed to affect her less and air could not gain purchase on her surfaces. With elegant terpsichorian…

Of Cats & Food

We have one cat now, a twelve-year-old shorthaired gray named Django. We almost lost him eighteen months ago to complications arising from his extreme obesity—he weighed over twenty pounds—and in order to save him we became draconian masters feeding him half as much as we used to and splitting that lesser amount into four meals a day to encourage stomach shrinkage. The results have been good. Django has lost nine pounds, is noticeably more energetic and agile, and our veterinarian recently declared him fit as a fiddle.

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