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Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023

Becoming Sunny | Chili Champs | Property Tax | Great Moment | Ward Selling | 2am Club | Grange Events | Conceived Names | Cubbison Complaint | Piano Concert | Shattuck Endorsement | Crows | Thanksgiving Dinner | Blind Farmer | On Suicide | Human Library | Ed Notes | Pozole Dinner | Going Down | On Death | Forbes Field | Beerfest Tickets | Yesterday's Catch | Theodore Penland | Porn Control | Lethal Twin | Wrecking Ball | Call Jared | Help Cat | Huff Backtracks | Strongest Man | Vote Apology | Partial Dip | Ukraine | Marshall Marines | Gaza | Bombing Bernie | Unapologetic Zionist | Wall Reconsidered | Four Wars | Resort Crowd

Cuarto Cero-Cero

We’d flown into a Mexican coastal resort without hotel reservations. On the wretched stretch of road between airport and town, we chatted up our cab driver — gushing over family photos pasted across his dashboard…

Back To Main Street [1998]

Fall is always the best time to meander around the country. Across the Midwest the corn is being harvested. The browns and golds of stubble and still-standing stalks warm those vast flat or slightly undulating…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Nov. 6, 2023

Showers | Westport Beach | Chili Cook-Off | AVHS Soccer | Football Playoffs | Mendo Landscape | Cancer Challenges | Youth Basketball | Ed Notes | Oak Silhouette | New Pup | Empty Lot | Retired Life | Yesterday's Catch | Overpopulation Issues | Lakota Indians | Golden Gate Suicides | Close Gate | Better Way | Ukraine | Civil Reunion | Sadistic Israeli | Gaza | Ceasefire Calls | Picasso Painting | JFK 007 | Terracotta Warriors | Amazing Sloth

Fixing Problems: Starting With The Cubbison Affair

Before getting down to the business at-hand today, I want to let you know that all politics aside, I am personally embarrassed to live and work in a county that is as dysfunctional as this…

Beyond My Powers To Reject

By the time I knew enough to know where I was but not how I got there, I was four years old and living in Cleveland, Ohio. I probably shrugged at the news. You will…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023

Light Rain | Panther Victory | Candle Making | Ocean Waves | Music Series | Pet Tucker | Watershed Meeting | Lake Emily | Name-Change Meeting | Handkerchief Tree | Ed Notes | Pond Cabin | Drainage Debris | Peace Songs | Makinen Book | Fifth Bridge | Yesterday's Catch | Bacterial Lake | O Lord | Meet People | Doubly Taxed | Weekend Off | Couch Coyote | Huffsplaining | Smartphone Zombies | Gaza | Native Dispossession | Dug In | Senior Center | Ukraine | Nov 1932 | First Words | Short Windows | Marco Radio | One-Man Band | Traffic School | Crows | Historic Blunders | Pawnee Brothers

Another Tale From The Hills: The Sociopath

Remember the case of the whole family who died recently, one by one, over a period of several years? The father, Mike Nicklin, was a sociopath, the mother Joanne Herbert, an abuse victim trapped with…

Bach & the Catskill Golden Spike

One thing the American public schools used to teach—or tried to—was the memorization of dates. At the top of that list were 1620, 1776, 1861, 1945. One of my favorite bathroom books remains the Timetables of…

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