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Posts published in January 2022

PG&E’s War Against Trees

PG&E’s war against trees isn’t confined to Humboldt County. I’ve received letters from outraged landowners in Shasta and Mendocino Counties, and read about infuriating encounters…

Reactions to Bookworm Tax Proposal

I recently reported that Mendocino County library supporters informed me of their intention to circulate petitions to place a tax measure on the November 2022…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022

Clearing Skies | 151 New Cases | Sans Beverage | Kendall Positive | Basketball Back | Geese Point | Lavish Praise | Walking Buddies | Lead Cleanup | Drewry Murder | Moving Wagon | Book Recommendation | Shelter Management | Noyo Guard | Complete Audit | Dee Says | Surf Fishing | Ed Notes | Father DeAngelo | Yesterday's Catch | YubaCo Jail | Elder Beauty | Salmon Act | Easily Offended | Private Capital | Tree Climbers | Get BoJo | Real Hero | Jivan Mukta | 1900 Gents

Trustee John Redding

In the span of a few days in January, a member of the Mendocino Coast Health Care District (MCHCD) Board of Directors appears to have…

County Notes (January 27, 2022)

THE LONG-AWAITED STUDY of a possible Psychiatric Health Facility (PHF) at the site of the crumbling, long abandoned former Nursing Home on Whitmore Lane south…

Letters (January 27, 2022)

Driving back to Anderson Valley from Chico, coming down the last hill on Highway 253, the truck started steering weirdly...

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022

Morning Fog | 752 New Cases | Rename Game | Ukiah Map | Chair Williams | Opportunity | Wylie Moderation | Lake Mendo | Ed Notes | Howard Burn | Public Comments | Early Hopland | Sinkyone Land | Iced Matcha | Prefers CAO | Forest Defenders | Homeless Plan | Yesterday's Catch | JFK Assassination | UFO Warning | Voice Search | Watercolor Bird | Young/Rogan | Ukiah Gals | CNN/Fox | Source Considered | Janis/Chet | Autograph This | Ferryboat | Palestinian Bill | Children/Mothers | War Drums | Morning Glory | Horsepaster | Hellebore | Flummoxed | Lake Creature

Off the Record (January 26, 2022)

BOB MCKEE HAS PASSED. For those of us in Southern Humboldt, it is as if a library burned or a giant tree uprooted. The landscape…

Rethinking the Numbers

If prior respiratory, viral pandemics are any indication, we should expect this pandemic to begin to fade over the next year.  The 1918 influenza pandemic…

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