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Doc to Dissolution

To ride with Doc Standley in 1892 or... whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of the outrageous fortunes of the Mendocino Coast Health Care District Board of Directors in…

The Great Redwood Boondoggle

At the first meeting of the Great Redwood Trail Agency, Bay Area weatherman Mike Pechner accurately predicted that the “new” agency’s project was “a financial boondoggle that would spend several billions of dollars in maintenance…

The M in MUSD Doesn’t Stand for Mendocino

Mark Twain once said “In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” Twain’s wisdom received a stunning confirmation last week on March 10th, 2022 with the display…

County Notes (March 24, 2022)

LAST TUESDAY’S SUPERVISORS MEETING featuring the Board’s final farewell to retiring CEO Carmel Angelo signaled what sounds a lot like a return to a version of the old CAO Tom Mitchell era, Mitchell, long-time observers…

Off the Record (March 23, 2022)

PUTIN'S WAR ON UKRAINE is, by itself, a major crime and, potentially, this time next year we could be roasting squirrels over open pit fires in the hills of Mendocino County if Putin decides to…

Booster Confusion

As COVID cases continue to decline in the US, while rising in some other areas in the world, a lot of attention is being placed on COVID vaccine boosters.  Should we be doing a second…

Philo’s Sally Schmitt, Trend-Setting Restaurateur, Dies at 90

Sally Schmitt, who with her husband, Don, opened the French Laundry, the now famous restaurant in the Napa Valley of California, in 1978, and in doing so helped solidify the valley as a food-and-wine destination…

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