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The Earl Butz Memorial Trio

As a guy who made a life (more or less) of playing guitar in various contexts including working bands, I still tend to spontaneously think of names for musical groups on a regular basis. Some,…

Going Native

Utopia isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. When Boonville resident Ken Montgomery arrived here 36 years ago, he hadn’t read the fine print in the Utopian Primer that specified making a living was…

LaRue Kobrin Scholarship

A perpetual scholarship has been established for Mendocino College Nursing Program students in memory of LaRue Kobrin of Fort Bragg, who died in September. Kobrin spent her entire life in service to helping others. She…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Nov 20, 2014

MendoVito Water;
Girl Scouts;
Depletion Cheered;
DA Correction;
Suicide Attempt;
Clinton Corruption;
Holiday Shoplifting;
Board Vacancies;
Shmoll Talk;
Sexual Strangler;
Palace Vote;
Catch of the Day;
Stalinist Democrats;
Immigration Relief;
Net Neutrality

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Nov 19, 2014

Marshall Arrested;
Catch of the Day;
Kestral Trollsplinter;
Ross Arraigned;
Pump Away;
MendoVito Meeting;
Inadequate Plea;
Selling Rhyme;
War Costs;
Hanging Maxine;
Zen Nez;
Fresh Start;
Creative Writing;
Harvest Ball

Visit Mendocino, Take Two

The Mendocino County Lodging Association (MCLA), is one of the several overlapping organizations involved in the promotion and marketing of Mendocino County. They met in Boonville last Wednesday afternoon. The meeting was hosted by the…

Stockholm Syndrome

In the days following the latest American election, I found myself musing about why so many people voted for so many cruel, stupid, shortsighted representatives and approved propositions designed to destroy our environment and our healthcare system? Why would millions of people elect the kinds of representatives who have done nothing but wreck our society for the past fifty years? Can we chock this up to mass stupidity? I used to think we could, but this election caused me to seek a slightly more sophisticated explanation, and though I may be wrong, here is what I came up with. America suffers from a severe case of the Oslo Syndrome.

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