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Coming Soon, Flying Carpets

Today we explore the shabby, semi-shady spending schemes of our elected representatives who, failing repeatedly and learning nothing, plunge ahead with billion dollar projects you and I know are idiotic.  (One of) Jerry Brown’s follies…

The Hon. Thomas Langley Carothers

The terms in office at that time were for two years and he served one term (1875-1876). He did not hold a California State Bar number because State Bar numbers had not yet been developed…

Lawrence Ferlinghetti – A Veteran For Peace

In 1962 a group of San Francisco veterans of World War II and Korea - knowing the Viet Nam war was looming - marched unofficially at the end of the annual Veterans Day Parade under…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, March 14, 2021

Cold Rain | 4 New Cases | Pet Willy | Potato Part | Senior Health | Big Hands | Sheriff Byrnes | New Surcharge | Tier Equity | Suburban Coyote | Lady Cardinals | Old Paver | Phase 3 | Posted Rules | California Code | 101 Gauntlet | Ed Notes | I'm Yours | Snipe Hunt | Yesterday's Catch | Corpse Bandages | Colonel's Reckoning | Kitchen Shop | Donor Card | World Rivers | Second Growth | Broken Dream | Progressive Agenda | Barbaric Practice | Smart Juniors | Unsafe Refuge | Integrity Benefit | Like Dogs | Royal Racism | Information War | America First | Useful Idiots | Wills Trucking | Marco Radio | Shortest Day

Marguerite’s Floodgate Bar Rules of Law

As I've described previously Floodgate Store was a complex retail business operation with long daily hours.  During the day Marguerite Avery was the sole attendant at the deli, convenience goods, bar and gas pumps part…

Seventh Heaven: The Year of the Worker

Bridgewater, Massachusetts, February 28, 2021 – At the end of February, I went to Gillette Stadium about 20 miles west of home in Bridgewater, Massachussetts, and got my vaccination, first round. Sunny day with a…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, March 13, 2021

Mostly Sunny | 2 New Cases | Restrictions Loosened | Not Exercise | Land Grabbing | Hendy Hiring | The Woods | Godot | Hopland Bust | Sedan Rammer | Duke & Diz | Tier Busting | Tracking Brittany | Refuseniks | Cops Indicted | Low Tide | Skunk Rumor | Mendo Brand | Bags | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Repubs Bad | Stimulus Numbers | Cheap Cigars | Soviet Style | Richardson Grove | Trump Rumor | How Stupid | Fancy Dining | Soft Totalitarianism | Doing Things | On Gates | Restricting Speech | Chauvin Trial | Marco Radio | USA Failing

Dr. Wheeler’s Arrest

After the ambush of October 15, 1879, that killed two civilian members of a posse, the four outlaws escaped into the forest east of Mendocino. In town, suspicions spread. About half of the original twenty-one…

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