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Racial Slurs, Suicide, Nitt Witt Ridge, Mushrooms, & More

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California Mishegoss
Racial Slurs, Suicide, Nitt Witt Ridge, Mushrooms, & More
By Mark & Patti Clifford • Issue #198 • View online
It’s Thursday Folks. July 19th. We’re almost at the weekend!
We’re adding a new section this week called “Photo’s We’ve Discovered.” It will be a collection of photos (1 or more) we discover while scouring the web. Check it out!
Here are 5 stories we found interesting this week:
There’s so much more. Just check out the stories below!

Be Well! We’ll be back Sunday!
Mark & Patti

Off The 5
Publisher of California weekly newspaper resigns over use of racial slur: report | Fox News
The publisher of a weekly newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area reportedly stepped down Saturday after removing three blog posts using a racial slur in front of staff members when criticizing an article.
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Pasadena Museum of History presents Something Revealed; California Women Artists Emerge, 1860-1960, an exhibition of over 250 works offering a new appreciation of the artists who defied gender and expectation in an era of inequality.
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A crowd of nearly 50 people from Amador County and surrounding communities gathered in Sutter Creek last month to discuss suicide risk in rural California and what community members can do. It was a conversation that residents said would not have happened a few years ago, and would still be considered taboo in most circles.
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From the 101 to the 1 and Beyond
Nitt Witt Ridge in Cambria CA is a quirky folk art landmark | The Tribune
But while Cambria’s Nitt Witt Ridge might bear a superficial similarity to William Randolph Hearst’s eccentric edifice — located just a few miles up the road in San Simeon— those comparisons fade away once you spend a few minutes inside Arthur “Art” Beal’s former home.
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The Surfrider Foundation announced Tuesday that it is filing a lawsuit against the federal agency in charge of water and sanitation issues at the U.S.-Mexico border for its inability to stop Tijuana River sewage flows from polluting local beaches.
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The Martin Luther King, Jr., School of the Arts just became the “greenest” school site in Monterey County now that its latest project is up and flowing.
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The District Attorneys of Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Luis Obispo counties are asking a judge to issue an injunction against Monterey Mushrooms and its subsidiary, Spawn Mate. 
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Update
In Sunday’s edition, we posted about the sinking Central Valley. Now comes more about not just that the valley is sinking, but the water we use for drinking and irrigation is tainted.
The floor of the Central Valley is slumping, and there is arsenic in the tap water. Now it seems the two problems are connected
www.theguardian.com  •  Share
A Photo Moment by Paul Jimerson
You can check out more of Paul’s photos by following him on Twitter where he posts daily multiple fantastic photos or by checking out his website. 
WAVE
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Food, Wine, & Beer
"Napa the Nobu Way" Wine Country Package at Nobu Hotel Epiphany Palo Alto | Travel + Leisure
It’s been nearly a year since the devastating wildfires in Napa Valley, and the region has welcomed wine lovers back in a big way.
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The 67-year-old is three weeks removed from her latest trip to the hospital for problems related to congestive heart failure, a condition in which the heart can’t pump properly. That was scary, she said.
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he summer season in California is synonymous with warm and sunny beach days, al fresco dining and of course, great music.
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Cannabis News
California to Block Hemp-Derived CBD From All Food Products | Ganjapreneur
Officially, the FDA maintains that CBD products are a Schedule 1 substance and have warned companies against listing or suggesting any medical benefits associated with the products.
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Our latest episode of About That Time on Facebook Live got up close and personal with a couple of Northern California’s most prestigious cannabis growers (and MERRY JANE columnists), Nikki and Swami.
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Photo's We've Found
Hotel California!
Hotel California!
Happenings Around the State
5 Southern California beach festivals you won’t want to miss this summer – Orange County Register
In Southern California, where the beach lifestyle is something to be celebrated, there’s no shortage of seaside festivals that will help you embrace the ocean-lover culture.
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The Happiest Place on Earth is celebrating its 63rd birthday today, July 17.
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The Mishegoss Files
How to Eat Your Way Across California - Eater
So yes, primarily we have the essentials, culled after months of Bill eating his way up and down the coast and through the valleys — and after days upon days of team infighting and debate (we have a lot of opinionated California-based staffers).
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We love beach sand … we’d just prefer not to bring a ton of it home with us.
www.coastalliving.com  •  Share
Yogi Berra Quote:
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
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