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Potter Valley Water Storage Options On Agenda

Potential options for storing water if and when the dams serving the Potter Valley Project are eventually removed will be discussed Thursday by the Mendocino County Inland Water and Power Commission, the board which First…

Superbowl Simulcast

Up to kick-off and even after it, I was expecting the Executive Order. Or the Black Shirts. Or both. If Commander-in-Chief Trump can, while flipping through his own large-print rulebook, change the name of the…

Mendo Spends $160K For County Counsel Assessment

Here’s a wonderful expenditure by Mendocino County in a time of tight budgets and unknown bank balances. (We apologize for somehow missing this item back in December when it was buried on the consent calendar…

Special Master Reviewing LaFever Case

More than three months after his arrest by the Ukiah Police Department, local journalist and teacher Matthew P. LaFever has yet to be charged with a crime by the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office. As…

Teetering On The Brink

A few weeks ago we reported on the County’s Tax Collection Mess, highlighted by the December 2025 State audit report which concluded that “The county estimated that as of December 2025 it had $30.6 million…

What’s Behind The Cline Appointment Flap?

We were disappointed by Mendocino Voice reporter Sydney Fishman’s coverage of the Supervisors’ discussion of whether First District Supervisor Madeline Cline should be removed as the Board’s appointee to the Inland Water and Power Commission.…

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