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Posts published in February 2021

An Unhealthy Start To The New Year

It has been a few weeks since I last sat down to write. It has been a tough couple of weeks, mostly due to health…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021

Dry Weather | 19 New Cases | Second Shots | Wharf Cases | Khadijah Reward | Winter Shelter | Candidate Meadlin | Barbara Norton | Wine Bunker | Foot Amputated | Sans Stick | Welfare Ranchers | Baseball Loggers | B Handoff | Workers Picnic | Bang Fraud | Big Wave | Clear Lake | Hirschman Cafe | Ed Notes | Noyo Chief | Cannabis Grants | Trans Zoom | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Meeting MLK | Traitorous Legislators | Human Seasons | Hospital Tours | Wild Turkey | Family Pack | Alzheimer Zoom | Legal Clinics | Super Aware | Isolatoes | Big Squeeze | Sore Winners

The Dentist & Bigfoot

John Fleming Wheeler arrived in Mendocino City in the summer of 1878. He set up a dentist office within the Norton Hotel on Main Street.…

Of Owls & Playboy Bunnies

It was Halloween inching toward the witching hour of midnight, as two young women navigated the dark and winding Highway 128 through Anderson Valley. As…

Historical False Positives

The realities behind certain public health victories.https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/epidemic/charts-graphs/false-positives

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Feb. 5, 2021

Chilly Sunny | 39 Cases | Boonville Cancelled | Bloomberg Calculator | PA Cancelled | Eureka Productions | Allman Grateful | Goin' Down | Hotel Pizzas | Yorkville Brats | Finnish Gentlemen | Chicken Bust | Syrah Lovers | Bragg Quake | Meeting Agenda | Steam Laundry | Boonville Water | Marlon Rossi | FB Housing | Yesterday's Catch | Fact Check | Silk Pajamas | Dead Last | 1972 Swingers | Sexist Poem | WTF OMG | Hassling Fauci | Beach | Underpants Poisoner | Roman Bridge | More Involved | Invading America | Humming Bird | Brand Brady | Chavez Ravine

Cannabis & Covid-19

Joe D. Goldstrich, MD, is 82 and sharp as a tack. In 1963, as a fourth-year medical student on the neurosurgical service at Parkland Hospital…

Ukiah City Council Appoints Rodin

At a special virtual meeting Thursday, the Ukiah City Council appointed former Council member Mari Rodin to fill the seat recently vacated by Maureen Mulheren,…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021

Dry Breeze | 13 Cases | Free Testing | Grange Sprucing | Drewry Homicide | Comment Period | Khadijah Investigation | Sarah Greer | Navarro Greeter | Drought Fishing | Support Marcia | My Melissa | Chinese Year | Hotel Take-Out | Kalevala Hall | Vaccine Signup | Mendo Vaccinations | Covid Death | Motorized Cart | Willits Bender | Su Nomination | Rocky Shore | Patent Investment | Pox Misinformation | Second Doses | Grim Realization | Grant Arrest | Marigold Man | Ed Notes | Wyoming Crowd | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Disgruntled Scribe | Good Discussion | Knaves Instead | Freeville 1900 | Perverse Genetics | Relief Caucus | Chemical Warfare | Liquid Chicken | Booster Effects | Windfall | Heroes Patriots | Working Dead | Dem Zoom | Trans Ban | Centerfoolery | People's Party

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