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Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Oct 24, 2015

North Country;
Rain Coming;
Pond Stopped;
Hendy Pipes;
Privatization Fiasco;
Kit Counsel;
Pekin Running;
Weed Summit;
Sage;
Capitalism Works;
Asphalt Consequences;
Yesterday's Catch;
Weillville;
Birthday Girl;
Oligarchy;
Abundance Downside;
Craig's Appointment;
Mantric Formula;
Tom Tit Tot;
Random Observations

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Oct 23, 2015

Rainwater Catchment;
Library Reimbursements;
Bill Edelen;
Gold-rush Exhibition;
Bad Logging;
Yesterday's Catch;
Rossi's Right;
FB Water;
Elk Poaching;
MCDH Finances;
Bernie Fundraiser;
Hippie Exhibit;
Rogue Nation;
Stoner Nation;
Eviction;
Collectively Sick;
Carson Ahead;
Covelo Trails;
Martian Author;
Rebellion;
Broadband Meeting;
Captain's Report;
Calfire Tweeting;
Water Wasters;
Privatized Prisons;
County Vacancies;
Water Conservation;
PA Agenda;
Classical Duo;
Hare Krishna

The Cause That Shook an Empire

Remember the War in Vietnam? Indeed, how could anyone forget napalm, tiger cages and the Ho Chi Minh Trail, or the rag-tail army of pacifists, GIs, hippies, self-styled revolutionaries, Catholics, Buddhists, rock bands, and just…

The Reservoir Stops Here (Part 2)

California’s enormous and elaborate water infrastructure — dams, reservoirs, power plants, pumping plants, canals, aqueducts, gates, tunnels, and other machinations plumbed together across more than six hundred miles — is divided into numerous management regimes.…

Bedlam On Low Gap

Some call it a debacle, others a fiasco — pick your adjective — but the escalating disaster of the County’s privatized mental health serices is now so severe that two judges, Ann Moorman and John…

Bad Bugs Biting Back

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law the nation's most stringent restrictions on the use of antibiotics in the production of meat. Is this a good thing? It certainly is - perhaps a crucial step in our survival, in fact - and I am not prone to exaggeration of such things. Now our state's new policy must become that of the entire nation.

Self Medication Nation

Just back from Ashland, Oregon, where I saw two plays. The good news: fifty to sixty high school students in attendance at Much Ado About Nothing. The bad news: average age of audience goers one…

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