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With Art

Gaye LeBaron, the noted North Coast history writer, recalled the time she sat down in a booth at the Palace Hotel restaurant with Barbara Eversole and committee to listen to their plans for a museum…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022

Cooler | Sunset | Hummer Lift | Bear & Ollie | Theatre Fundraiser | Beer & Beethoven | Raskin Beat | Addams Family | Fjell Concert | Handyman Bauman | County Notes | Elderhome Fundraiser | Sheriff Message | McEwen Art | Pot Mess | Teen Support | Weed Dollars | Joint Committee | Hawk Airline | Yesterday's Catch | We're Waterful | Truck Parade | Vote Yes | Stray Cat | Ash Bats | Caspar School | Van Gogh | Antigone Lautrec | Marco Radio | Westport Wharf | Trumpers | Pumpkin Parts | Burns Reading | Pass Power | Ukraine | Lost Aliens | Rat Exit | Black Crow

On Bombs & Silence

Most tools spend far more time in the toolbox than in the hands of the craftsman. Likewise, most musical instruments are silent not sounding, seen (or hidden in their cases) not heard. This relationship between…

Oaky Joe Report: Over, Under, Sideways, Down

Yes, Oaky Joe Munson, the iconic cannabis grower and infamous Nor Cal outlaw, is driving Bruce Anderson’s Honda, which has racked up 326,000+ miles. It’s still running with umph, though not like new. Oaky Joe,…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022

Cool Winds | Orchard | Tire Disposal | Surf Fisherman | No P | Gualala Mill | Ed Notes | Myco Revolution | UPS Closure | Cuffey's Cove | Pot Tedium | Boomtown | Skunk Denied | Redwood Lane | Butts Retires | Tanker 91 | AV Brewery | PA Council | Album Fundraiser | JDSF News | Police Reports | Luna Trattoria | Harvest Celebration | Yesterday's Catch | Energy Solutions | Freaky People | Marco Radio | Big Screen | American Pickers | Neudörfers | Matthews Paintings | Highest Activity | Trashy Fishers | Dog Trophy | Trumpenleft Denialism | Leg Pain | Tiny Joke | This Week | Ukraine | Blue Root | Evil Axis | Zanzibar Tales

A Westerner Goes Back East

The West Coast and the East Coast of the United States are distinctly different animals and a five and a half hour plane ride is all that separates the two. Last week my husband Bob…

Windfall Profit Tax Update

In last week’s column on oil companies gouging Californians on gas prices, I wrote that I supported Consumer Watchdog’s demand for Gov. Gav Newsom to call for a special legislation session to get the new…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Oct. 21, 2022

Cooling | Coccora | Reviewing Waidelich | AV Library | Wildlife Release | Vaccine Clinic | Senior Trip | Starr Halloween | Party Endorsements | Cedric Hollingsworth | Duck Funding | O & P | Art Walk | Filigreen Farm | Indoor Mini-Golf | Yesterday's Catch | Media Confidence | Whaling Protest | Oil Profit | Phyllis Cormack | Dodge Darting | 50 Years | Smoky NW | Crossing Hype | My Books | Willits Depot | $20 Burger | Griz Wrestling | Downward Momentum | Today's World | Niner Trade | SF Chaos | Duckless | Midterm Rhetoric | Urban Assault | Growing Stupid | Dealmaking | Ukraine's Destruction | Rain Cover

And On The Fifteenth Day…

And so they have ended. Maybe. And on the first day after the fourteen of the House Select Committee “Investigating” January 6,  the airwaves, print pages and cyber-spaces are zinging with words and thoughts about it all.…

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